Hurricane Angel Lyrics - The Day After Everything Changed - Ellis Paul

On the day the levee broke 

The water did rise, the flowers did choke 

I sat in my living room, lit one last smoke 

Then I watched it all drift away 

Now my credit card's ringing up at thirty percent 

There's a man in india wondering where the money went 

But I can't pay 

So I sat on my roof in lake pontchartrain 

Singing woe to my chimney singing woe to the rain 

A stranger came by I never caught his name 

He said he's rowing to the rio grande 

Air force one a blue streak in the sky 

Mr. president, you can't afford to lie 

Cause I can't afford to pay 

Hurricane angel I'm lifting my eyes over baton rouge 

Lift up your wings let me hear your voice singing 

Can you turn these black skies to blue again? 

I'm laying on the floor of a trailer at night 

With sixteen refugees waiting on daylight 

I can't pay 

I caught a flatbed ford up to baton rouge 

With four worn out souls and one corkscrew 

You can drown new orleans but you can't drown the blues 

So bartender pour away exxon's having one hell of a year 

Three bucks a gallon man they're making it clear that I can't pay. 

Lord, lord, lord 

We haven't spoken in many a day 

I got myself in trouble down in the ninth ward 

Thought I'd send a prayer your way 

On my windowsill's 

A stack of insurance bills 

A man in delaware says I can't have the pills until I can pay 

Hurricane angel I'm lifting my eyes over baton rouge 

Lift up your wings let me hear your voice singing 

Can you turn these black skies to blue again? 

I'm laying on the floor of a trailer at night 

With sixteen refugees waiting on daylight 

I can't pay 

On the day the levee broke 

The water did rise and the flowers did choke 

I sat in my living room lit one last smoke 

And I watched it all drift away