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How Best To Survive The Flood And Save The Girl

from Ghost Towns by John Statz

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Written during the summer of 2008 after floods swept much of the midwest, including John's native Wisconsin, this song is a more light-hearted take on the situation. The setting, however, is not the midwest, but rather the Delta region of Mississippi, which inspired John after playing a show in Greenwood earlier that year.

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I dreamed I saw a levee crumble,
fall and turn the rivers red.
Disturbed, I wandered to the doctor,
told him what was in my head.

He told me I could tell him things,
whatever's on my mind,
but as he watched me closer then,
all I told were lies.

Back to my home in the Delta,
laid along the river banks.
Suitcase packed my wife was leaving,
told her that she must come back.

"This world is just too big for you,
too big to careless through".
She said, "its not that you aren't beautiful,
its torture leaving you."

Woke that night the storm above had opened sky and drenched the dirt.
Ran outside, the house was breaking,
from its foundations and the earth.

The house could find itself a place,
to stay and rest awhile.
Treading water thinking fast,
I swore my love, I'd find.

Just when I could swim no more,
had given up on life.
I spied a floating twin-sized bed,
and onto it I climbed.

Floating past the doctor's office,
on his roof watching the scene.
I laughed inside and headed west of town,
to where I knew my love would be.

Her mother's house was gone, instead,
the willow tree she'd climbed.
Hopping down onto my bed,
we just let that river wind.

credits

from Ghost Towns, released August 12, 2010
written by John Statz (BMI)

John Statz - vocals, acoustic guitar
Ben Johnson - electric guitar, mandolin
Matt Donoghue - upright bass
Adam Cargin - drums
Shawn Drake - fiddle

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John Statz Denver, Colorado

One of the more prolific thirty-something songwriters working in the Folk/Americana genre today, John Statz has released nine studio albums and performed all over North America and Europe over the course of his fourteen-year career. The Boston Globe has called John’s music "electric, urgent folk; aching, sweet country-rock" ... more

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