[Intro – Emergency Sirens + Wind]
[Levee groaning under pressure]
You can feel it before it happen.
[Low bass shaking softly]
The city get quiet different.
Like everybody spirit know…
somethin’ about to break.
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[Verse 1]
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Clouds hang low over Claiborne lights,
Whole city tense on humid nights.
Politicians smile through television screens,
While the water rise behind the scenes.
Old men sit outside corner stores,
Sayin’, “This feel like before.”
They seen too many storms hit land,
Too many promises melt like sand.
Meanwhile the rich toast champagne upstairs,
Actin’ like money stop fear.
But Louisiana know one sacred fact—
Water humble everybody back.
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[Hook – Choir + Deep Bass]
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The levee know…
The levee feel…
Pressure underneath what look stable still.
The levee know…
Don’t trust the calm…
Storms always sing before they form.
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[Verse 2]
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Cops ride slow through flooded blocks,
Church mothers prayin’ around the clock.
Young boys posted with gold in they teeth,
Still smell panic underneath the heat.
That’s the thing about collapse down South—
It creep in quiet before it get loud.
First the tension settle in the air,
Then survival instincts everywhere.
I feel it too beneath my chest,
Like inherited trauma never rest.
Like generations passed down fear
Straight through blood and atmosphere.
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[Bridge – Spoken + Distorted Choir]
Everybody waitin’ on disaster…
but nobody wanna change.
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Black clouds gather over neon glow…
Even the river movin’ nervous slow.
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[Verse 3]
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Maybe the levee ain’t just concrete walls,
Maybe it’s every lie before the fall.
Every secret people try to hide,
Every buried truth beneath the pride.
And eventually pressure crack the seams,
That’s true for cities and human beings.
Because what we refuse to heal in light—
Always flood back through the night.
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[Final Hook – Full Orchestra + Choir]
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The levee know…
Storms arrive…
Even when the city still alive.
The levee know…
Hear it groan…
The South can feel when judgment close.
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[Outro – Thunder + Water Rising]
New Orleans keep dancin’…
while the walls keep shakin’.
