“The Price You Pay,” a tribute to those still trying to overcome the personal devastation resulting from Katrina.
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flood
The Price You Pay
Rubies, sapphire, diamonds & gold
All the money your purse can hold
Had nice place flood took away.
Nothing’s left to do but pray.
Nothing shines more than a day
Ain’t nothing worth the price you pay.
Baby cried when the black water came.
Cried and cried as we washed away.
It’s hard to live, hard to breathe
After losing everything you need.
Nothing shines more than a day
Ain’t nothing worth the price you pay.
Everything’s changed now I’m back
Where I lived, everything’s black.
New city’s for them, them that got.
Just mud for us, us that’s not.
Nothing shines more than a day
Ain’t nothing worth the price you pay.
Nothing left where I’ve been.
Nowhere to go to start over again.
No one said I was born to be good,
But I had a good life in my house of wood.
Nothing shines more than a day
Ain’t nothing worth the price you pay.
Rubies, sapphire, diamonds & gold
All the money your purse can hold
My next house gonna be steel and stone,
Up on the hill, like the rich people own
Nothing shines more than a day
Ain’t nothing worth the price you pay.
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