On this 3rd Katrinaversary -
I was just listening to WWOZ over the Internet, and this song came on:
The Long Black Line - Spencer Bohren
everywhere you look
everywhere you go
you read it like a book
it's the only way to know
how high the water got
august twenty-nine
that hurricane last summer
left a long black line
sometimes it's to your ankles
sometimes to your knees
sometimes it's to your chest or head
or up above the eaves
water filled with chemicals
water filled with gas
water spillin' everywhere
a city under glass
water laced with poison
god knows, of every kind
you don't want to know
what's in the long black line
The rest of the lyrics.
Three years later, you can still see the long black line. In the Lower Nine, both literally and metaphorically.
The Long Black Line - Spencer Bohren
everywhere you look
everywhere you go
you read it like a book
it's the only way to know
how high the water got
august twenty-nine
that hurricane last summer
left a long black line
sometimes it's to your ankles
sometimes to your knees
sometimes it's to your chest or head
or up above the eaves
water filled with chemicals
water filled with gas
water spillin' everywhere
a city under glass
water laced with poison
god knows, of every kind
you don't want to know
what's in the long black line
The rest of the lyrics.
Three years later, you can still see the long black line. In the Lower Nine, both literally and metaphorically.