作曲:Levi Stoker
作词:Levi Stoker
Sandbag and sweat won't hold back the tide
When the river starts rising with a hole in its sack
I've been stacking up stones 'till my knuckles are raw
Fighting against gravity and the natural law
The clouds are a curtain of a charcoal gray
And the dry land is fading a little more every day
There's a groan in the timber and a crack in the wall
And the silence is waiting for the sinner to fall
Oh when the levee breaks you better learn how to swim
I find a little mercy at the edge of the rim
Washing away the secrets and the sins of the past
Finding out exactly what was built to last
Yeah the water's got a fury but I got the will
When the levee breaks I'm standing here still
I see the granddaddy's tractor go floating on by
Underneath the weight of the weeping sky
Everything I planned and everything I've known
Scattered like the sea is that the wind had blown
But a man isn't measured by the things he can keep
About the way he walks when the water is deep
Oh when the levee breaks you better learn how to swim
Or find a little mercy at the edge of the rim
Washing away the secrets and the sins of the past
Finding out exactly what was built to last
Yeah the water's got fury but I got the will
When the levee breaks I'm standing here still
Let it come
I'm still breathing
You can take the house
And you can take the show
But you'll never take the spear
Is knocking at the door
A levee breaks
The spirit waits
Whatever it takes
滚动歌词&翻译贡献者:蝶耳瓜