Bill Simmons - Hurricane Katrina

Within the calm still waters
Feel the breath of wind
The wind it turns the water churns
She is giving birth within

Now across her white caps
And still far out at sea
She whispers she is coming
She gathers up her breeze

The name that they give her
Soon all the world will learn
The might and strength of a woman's wrath
Is soon to be well earned

See her rising waters
See her calm still eye
The fury of what is to come
Hear the children cry

With biblical proportions
There is nothing that can be done
Her strength and will of all she gives
Hurricane Katrina comes

The levee it can't hold her
Against her massive tides
The city streets are beneath her
As she turns out the lights

From Mississippi to Alabama
She lays her waters down
The destruction of what once was
So many still not found

To late to run to late to hide
To late now but to cry
As we wake up to a new morning sun
The day after New Orleans it died.

Bill Simmons

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