Buddy Peace - Six Feet High lyrics

With no warning to what the storm would bring ock The next morning flood waters reached the awning I got the call when he stalled said he lost it all Body of work submerged, 31st the curtains fall An act of God that top records and it shocked experts They blocked exits, cops present trying to stop the wreckage My father watched from the top of 37 to bear witness To his biggest fear and his career's finished He stared into the distance where he peered for pictures Of his disappearing business and his tears would smear the image They weren't prepared for how severe the river's brim cleared Sixty years washed away in one day just isn't fair And I don't wanna hear “Your father's in our prayers” I know they're sincere, but what he needs is money to begin repairs Cause if you went there, breathed the air Ankle deep in fecal drear, with people who cared You would leave there With a new perspective, not sympathetic gestures Cause what's more important is to pay it forward and relay the message Of what you saw or didn't, like Federal a**istance So don't believe the hype or what you see on television Cause FEMA doesn't give grants to businesses just residences And loans at 6% interest starts to get expensive Plus they need collateral, its not palpable or salvageable And I don't know what my Dad'll do We're on our own to rebuild it's just a fact of life If all we sacrificed was for nothing, then that ain't right [Hook] Six feet high marked the bricks of this watery grave Of a place born in 1948 The front door is a headstone, the writing is the epitaph March 30, 2010 was the d**h of that Words can't describe being inside that place Check the pictures online Sandrine and I had to take Part of my Dad died that day Our history we tried to save and dry that day The sun was in the sky that day It was culture shock watching vultures flock in loafers now Roam around this ghost town foaming at the mouth They were excited to bank off those need Careful not to ruin shoes from the sewage in the street It's like businesses in the same community, who could see Would look at us with a “better you than me” eulogy Locals stopped for photo ops like souvenirs Just to show their peers to be amused and proved they were there The helicopters, the teleprompters The men in suits with business cards trying to sell sh** to my father Tell Obama there's no Federal dollars No help for small businesses, another broken promise The governor's away. State officials? Haven't see them Only getting special treatment if your name is Garabedian Where's Harry Reid and them to get us on our feet again? I guess they'd rather see us swim then find a happy medium News castors made of plastic asked for interviews Had Cranston Casting images plastered on the dinner News Disaster crews from out-of-state they bring in groups are victims too Detroit's unemployed will do anything for loot So they get them dirt cheap, cuz they need the work to feed their families Pay their bills and keep their sanity while suits reap the ante I lost faith but gained a lot inside of people Week by week, piece by piece I'm helping them to rebuild We're on our own to rebuild it's just a fact of life If all we sacrificed was for nothing? Then that ain't right [Hook] Six feet high marked the bricks of this watery grave Of a place born in 1948 The front door is a headstone, the writing is the epitaph March 30, I lost faith in the Democrats Six feet high marked the bricks of this watery grave Of a place born in 1948 The front door is a headstone, the writing is the epitaph April 1st I watched my Dad raise the American flag - like he was taking it back If I'm not mistaken, the date was March 28 I was workin', and all of a sudden around noon-time The water started coming up into our parking lot In a little bit of panic we raised all our equipment And our computers up about three feet And then we evacuated the building with no warning From anybody I knew that right from the start, everything was going We knew we had tons of insurance for business interupteries and all the umbrella Insurances, everything we thought was possible But we didn't have flood insurance, so we didn't get ten cents The main thing was getting everything clean Once everything was clean we just started putting it back together, piece by piece