The Levee Breaks

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