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Tommy Jackson - Broken Hearts and Broken Levees

from Round 23, Week 7 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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For my song taking place in history, I decided to write about my experience in 2005 New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina. I went the route of comparing the hurricane to a girl that wrecked my home, set to an impression of the styles of Donnie Hathaway and Lucas Nelson

lyrics

When I came back I saw that you’d wrecked my home
So I sat down on the floor and I moaned
Why why why
All the things I’d collected you wrecked it
Left me feeling cold and alone
In this world
Yeh you took me by surprise

So I packed what I could into my friends car and I headed to higher ground
Somewhere safe from the aftermath of the path you laid
And I was homeless with a check from the government that said they were sorry for the things you’d done
And you were gone never to return

Who knows what lies below the depths
I added to the water line with the tears I wept
Wading through where I went wrong in my flooded mind
It’s hard to walk a straight line with water up To your knees
I was left with a broken heart
Next to a broken levee

I spent a year living out of cars into hotels and sleeping in my parents spare room
Which made me feel like I was cursed
I like to think that I’m sympathetic to my fellow man but even if I wasn’t
This kind of treatment is undeserved

You came blowing through and left me feeling low way below the dirt that made the marker on the walls that we called the water line
Then you disappeared never caring what it was you broke all the levees and the hearts that you left behind

Who knows what lies below the depths
I added to the water line with the tears I wept
Wading through where I went wrong in my flooded mind
It’s hard to walk a straight line with water up To your knees
I was left with a broken heart
Next to a broken levee

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from Round 23, Week 7, released July 29, 2019

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