This City

This city won’t wash away
This city won’t ever drown
Blood in the water and hell to pay
Sky tear open and pain rain down.


Doesn’t matter, cause come what may
I ain’t ever going to leave this town
This city won’t wash away
This city won't ever drown

Ain’t the river or the wind to blame
As everybody around here knows
Nothing holding back Pontchartrain
Except for a prayer and a promise’s ghost

We just carry on digging our graves
In solid marble above the ground
Maybe our bones will wash away
But this city won’t ever drown

This city won’t ever die
Just as long as our hearts beat strong
Like a second line stepping high
Raising hell as we roll along

Gentilly to the Vieux Carre
Lower Nine, Central City, Uptown
Singing Jacques imo fee na né
This city won’t ever drown

Don’t matter cause there ain’t no way
I’m ever going to leave this town.
This city won’t wash away,
This city won’t ever drown