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In 1927 the Mississippi River poured into the delta and turned america's cotton fields into a fresh water ocean.

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If you're gonna have a disaster it better be a fire
Flood'll get you all caught up in chicken wire
You can run from your past
You can run from your pain
Feel it drippin' down your back
You can't outrun the rain

A fire would be cleaner
We could rebuild on the ashes
Grab your kids and grab your asses
And high-tale it north

But when that mud it starts bleedin'
And the floor it is leakin'
The door it is beatin'
Like Pappy on the weekends

I look up to the ceilin'
Let me axe you one question
Its rain so why am I
Puttin' a hole in my own roof

Cause there it's much better
Though significantly wetter
I can't predict the weather
But it looks like we're gonna die

If you're gonna have a disaster it better be a fire
Flood'll get you all caught up in chicken wire
You can run from your past
You can run from your pain
Feel it drippin' down your back
You can't outrun the rain

My eyes open to a
Barge on the Padatucha
When they get wider
See street signs

My home is now a ship
At the mercy of a current
I'm headed to Chicago
Where they're color blind

Row row row your boat
Like it was a dream
Run into the levee
Camp refugee

Them coast they got large guns
Like old Red Taggart
I'd take a dagger in my chest
Over these needles in my eyes

If you're gonna have a disaster
It better be a fire
Flood'll get you all caught up in
Chicken wire
You can run from your past
You can run from your pain
Feel it drippin' down your back
You can't outrun the rain

Next time we have a disaster
Lets make it a fire
Flood gets me all caught up in
Chicken wire

I wanna get old and fat
The fashionable way
Not Bloated and floating
On the crest of a wave

Cause my shoes are gettin' soggy
And my voice is gettin' froggy
And I aint in the mood
To do the Charleston anymore

So I'll take to fires please
And a Tsunami if you got it
Hold the dust bowl
That's about the same kinda lot I dont wanna I'm

Gonna have a disaster
It better be a fire
Flood'll gets me all caught up in
Chicken wire
Runnin' from your past
Runnin' about as fast as you can
Feel it drippin' down your back
You can't outrun the rain

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from The Amen Brothers, released October 1, 2014
written by Anthony Stamilio

Trombone : Ed Yanasak
Bass : Smith T. Powell
Drums : Nathan Staley
Cello : Alexander Knapp
Vocals : Anthony Stamilio

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Anthony Stamilio (voice), Alexander Knapp (cello+), Ed Yanasak (trombone+), T. Powell (bass), Nathan Staley (drums)

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