Ben Harper Black Rain Lyrics

Black Rain Lyrics

You left them swimming for their lives

Down in New Orleans

Can't afford a gallon of gasoline



With your useless degrees

And your contrary statistics

This government business

Is straight up sadistic



And it's black rain

Oh, I said black rain gonna fall



You don't fight for us

But expect us to die for you

You have no sympathy for us

But still I'd cry for you



Now you may kill the revolutionary

But the revolution you can never bury



And it won't be long

'Til the people fill the streets

[Incomprehensible] for you

One and all



That's a black rain

Yeah, that's a black rain, is gonna fall



Don't you dare speak to us like we work for you

Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to

I'm not a desperate man but these are desperate times at hand

This generation is beyond your command



And it won't be long

'Til the people flood the streets

Take you down, one and all



It's black rain

Talking 'bout the black rain, gonna fall

Yeah, it's gonna fall, go-gonna fall

One and all