vs 1: (i’m) hanging on a wire with six black crows
looking down on a kid with a radio
he’s sitting on the dock with his toes dipped in
singing “i lie” with loretta lynn

vs 2: then the crows got spooked and flew away
river started boiling like etouffe
lost loretta to the wicked wind
didn’t mind so much ‘til the snakes came in

cho: didn’t see it coming, couldn’t feel it in the air
was a little too late once the wind was flying everywhere
you can’t outrun a hurricane
from a backwater shack on the pontchatrain
world turned around, went up in smoke
when the levee broke

vs 3: the radio tossed in his bicycle basket
pedalled so fast through the tallgrass
didn’t change nothing, caught him off guard
tossed him into the swamp graveyard

vs 4: now the snakes gotta home in the radio
vines creeping over it nice and slow
and the boy’s sittin’ in with the angel band
singing “peace in the valley” by loretta lynn

cho 2: didn’t see it coming, couldn’t feel it in the air
holding on to nothin’ but a wing and a prayer
didn’t see it coming but the axe just fell
the river took it all straight down to hell
you can’t outrun a hurricane
from a the backwater shack on the pontchatrain
world turned around, went up in smoke
when the levee broke

lyrics by nancy josephson/princess layer cakes publishing , ascap
music by marc moss/banyan music, bmi and nancy