When The Levee Breaks

from They're Trying To Kill You by BRANDON CARTER

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lyrics

When The Levee Breaks
(Hook)

If it keeps on raining
Levee’s gonna brake

If it keeps on raining
Levee’s gonna break

and when the levee’s gone
my home is gone away

Verse #1

They tryna pass bills
"Drill Baby Drill"
But the fish get all the oil when its filled in their gills

Eating it aint safe
Toxic still in our meals
Mother Nature getting raped
oil spill after spill

And I cant overstate
how bad it is that we live in
a society that placed
our planet in that condition

and how do you repay
families that make their living
off of tourism and fishing
you ruined their condition
of life

Aint no controlling them
these corporations aint doing right
They caring only when
their stock is going lower in price

They acting phony when
They saying them lies
British Petroleum got rich from New Orleans demise
damn...

(Hook)

If it keeps on raining
Levee's gonna break

If it keeps on raining
Levee's gonna break

and when the levee's gone
my home is gone away

(Verse 2)

2,000 Americans
were killed in New Orleans
I found it embarrassing
our Government ignored them

and provided no action
but i wonder what would have happened
if it had happened in "The Hamptons"
The support would have poured in

New Orleans was waiting for help
enduring that pain that it felt
the President wouldn't do nothing
people resorted to saving themselves

At least they tried to
but too may of them aint have time to
survive through
the time that it took for Bush to come to the Bayou

The levees broke and Sea level was reaching the peak
leaving the people to sleep in the streets
thinking that FEMA would bring the relief

But once you lose your home
youre thrown in the Super-Dome
You thought America cared about poor people?
You was WRONG!!!

credits

from They're Trying To Kill You, released September 15, 2011
*Produced By Brandon Carter
*(contains samples from Led Zeppelin’s
“When The Levee Breaks”)