Shock and Awe (feat. Andrew Samonsky)

I wipe off the mud

From the lids of a newborn's eyes

Load two grandmas in the boat holding each other's hands

As the sun begins to rise

Diesel burns the night into day

Your face is just an arm's length away

So rockabye body in the treetops

When the tide turns, your wheelchair will rock

The ripples on the water sing to me

Swim and save me, swim and save me

The shouts grow stronger

We have to turn away our eyes

Point the prow to the west, loaded down to the gills

Stuff our ears to the fading cries

But one siren throws her song out to me

"Baghdad, turn back for me."

So rockabye body in the treetops

When the bombs fall, your wheelchair will rock

Rip off your veil and swim across the sea

Swim and save me, swim and save me

Break down the levee, bring on the flood

Save the whole world, bomb them back to mud

Shock and awe

Shock and shame

Crime and law

Praise and blame

All the same

Baghdad, New Orleans

I wipe off the mud

But the harder i try

The more impossible it seems that we can ever hope

To get clean before we die

Then your voice lifts me up from despair

In Baghdad, hear my prayer

Rockabye body in the treetops

When the bombs fall, your wheelchair will rock

Rip off your veil and swim across the sea

Swim and save me, swim and save me

Break down the levee, bring on the flood

Save the whole world, bomb them back to mud

Shock and awe

Shock and shame

Crime and law

Praise and blame

All the same

Baghdad, New Orleans