Memories Out of Mud

When Katrina struck, boy she scattered all our dreams
Ripped our lives apart like pages from a magazine
Now here we are stuck in the footprint of the flood
Just trying to retrieve memories out of mud

When those waters rise ain't a thing that's waterproof
There's no help in sight and we've been three days on the roof
Now here we are stuck in the footprints of the flood
Just trying to retrieve memories out of mud

Some folks with big ideas messed with the Mississippies flow
Messed with the wetlands too just to make their pockets grow
Now here we are stuck in the footprints of the flood
Just trying to retrieve memories out of mud

I hear the radio say we should've left before the rain
Spent money we ain't got to catch a bus that never came
Now here we are stuck in the footprints of the flood
Just trying to retrieve memories out of mud

She cried I can't hold on honey I'm as good as dead
Take care of the kids that's the last thing that she said
Now here we are stuck in the footprints of the flood
Just trying to retrieve memories out of mud

When Katrina struck, boy she scattered all our dreams
Ripped our lives apart like pages from a magazine
Now here we are stuck in the footprints of the flood
Just trying to retrieve memories out of mud
Just trying to retrieve memories out of mud