New Orleans

Album: Let the Dominoes Fall (2009)
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  • Well I went south
    With a case of survival
    To amend my heart
    That's paper thin
    You see I felt her words
    And her images filed
    I'm gonna carry my
    Heart to New Orleans

    I have no home to go
    So I wander awhile
    From coast to coast
    From sin to sin
    From the coldest shores
    To the warmest islands
    Been around the world
    Back to New Orleans

    Well she's got pride
    Like a million lions
    She's got a scar
    On her velvet face
    She's got a smile
    Like a newborn child
    She's gotta walk,
    A stoic grace

    I never slept that night
    Until my arrival
    I romanticized a long embrace
    You see I lost my tongue
    And burned my Bible
    But I made it back home
    To New Orleans

    Well she's got pride
    Like a million lions
    She's got a scar
    On her velvet face
    She's got a smile
    Like a newborn child
    She's gotta walk
    A stoic grace

    Well I held my breath
    And I swam for miles
    When all was lost
    And hell took place
    You see it rained all night
    And the city she flooded
    It rained all night
    In New Orleans

    Yeah it rained all
    Night in New Orleans
    Yeah it rained all
    Night in New Orleans
    Yeah it rained all
    Night in New Orleans Writer/s: LARS FREDERIKSEN, ROGER MATTHEW FREEMAN, TIMOTHY (USA) ARMSTRONG
    Publisher: Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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