After a Hurricane

There were limbs down everywhere and those trees ain’t coming back
And people without power three weeks after the fact
And on Sunday when it ripped through town howling like a train
You closed your eyes and waited til you only heard the rain

After it was over, when all the lights were out
You made your way down to the road to drive back into town
Well they closed down the highway; cops were turning folks around
And a line was coming down between then and now

The governor declared a state and called out the Guard
And the President dropped by to let us know we would survive
But we sweated out that summer in the Alabama sun
Unemployed and with no way to pay for what must be done