High & Dry

Where the levee broke the flood

Came down and washed away

Our little town, grandma floated out to sea

I saw her looking back at me

So, I swam down to 2nd Street

I touched the trees beneath my feet

There was nothing I could do

But float away into the blue

Floating over trees, face up to the sky

Hoping desperately to be high & dry

To be high & dry

With nothing I could hold on to

All I could do was think of you

Safe and warm so far away

Perhaps we'll meet again someday

I could not sleep as it grew dark

Alligators, rats and sharks

But that was oh so long ago

Oh, where did everybody go

See me drifting by wishing I could fly

I'd do anything to be high & dry

To be high & dry

I fantasize thе higher ground I felt

That soon I'd probably drown

The watеr rose, for sure I'd sink

I only wanted one last drink

The bar was somewhere under me

As I became one with the sea

It's not the way I planned to die

I took one last look at the sky

Sweet oxygen, dear old friend of mine

I can make amends and be high & dry

And be high & dry

I closed my eyes and held my breath

Thought what the hell, I'll put off death

And just as I thought life was lost

My shoelace snagged the big old cross

I balanced there upon the steeple

Searching for the rescue people

I heard of being saved by the church man

How could things get much worse

Then the sun came up

Split the black cloud sky

The reservoir filled up

And the flood began to subside

I was hung out to dry, a tear

Falling from my eye

Way up in the air

Hanging on for dear life

Looking for the rescue squad

I was high & dry

I was high & dry