U2 and Green Day prophetically inaugurate the Superdome..
Lyrics below to the medley that began with GD's "Wake Me Up When Sepetember Ends", seguing into a snippet of "House of The Rising Sun," picking up below with the adapted ...and jacked up with additional biblical imagery...version of the Skids song, "The Saints are Coming":
I cried to my daddy on the telephonehow long now
Until the clouds unroll and you come home
the line wentBut the shadows still remain since your descent
your descent
The saints are coming, the saints are coming
No matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply
The saints are coming, the saints are coming
A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief
How long nowUntil a weather change condemns belief
The night watchman lets in the thief
Once had his day
The saints are coming, the saints are coming
No matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply
The saints are coming, the saints are coming
We're living like birds in the magnolia trees
Child on the rooftop, mother on her knees
Her sign reads "Please -- I Am An American!"
"Beautiful Day" (u2):
See Gentilly and Lakeview
Crescent City right in front of you
Birds sing in broken trees
They’re coming home to New Orleans
Lower ninth will rise again
Above the waters of Lake Ponchatrain
See the bird with the leaf in her mouth
After the Flood all the colors came out...
Beautful day, don't let it get away
Reach me;Take me to that Other Place;
Teach me, Lord, I know I'm not a hopeless case..
Fats Domino, you're beautiful
Allen Toussaint, you're beautiful
Music rising...
Later addition: Official video here:
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