Remember Katrina?

[Verse]

Remember Katrina?

Not that we were there

But remember the grownups talking about it?

Remember being so scared?

2007, remember forgetting all you learned

In third grade at recess

Remember falling down and getting hurt

[Chorus]

Now you're a big girl

You're not scared of the big wind

You're not scared of making new friends

And flying

Or an airborne hostage crisis

Or an ocean that's rising

The last event horizon of this world

Now you're a big girl

[Verse]

Remember tsunami?

That new word that starts with a "t"

You learned it 'cause 230.000 washed out to sea

Remember your parents

Screaming so loud that you thought it might

Destroy you

And, boy, you could barely turn out the lights

[Chorus]

And now you're a big boy

You're not scared of a big noise

You're not scared of heavy metal and basements

And bombs in foreign places

Or an earthquake so ancient

That it sends half the stadium

Through the void

Now you're a big boy

[Outro]

If it ever gets heavy

You know who to call

If it gets through the levee

Try to forget it all

You won't ever be ready

To see just how small your life can be

That's history

That's New Orleans

That's the big blue sea

That's catastrophe

Spell it out for me

C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-God!