The Little Things Give You Away

Water gray, through the windows, up the stairs

Chilling rain, like an ocean everywhere



Don't want to reach for me, do you?

I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away

And now there will be no mistaking

The levees are breaking



All you've ever wanted

Was someone to truly look up to you

And six feet under water, I do



Hope decays

Generations disappear

Washed away,

As a nation simply stares



Don't want to reach for me, do you?

I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away

But now there will be no mistaking

The levees are breaking



All you've ever wanted

Was someone to truly look up to you

And six feet under water, I do



All you've ever wanted

Was someone to truly look up to you

And six feet underground,



Now I do...



Oh, oh...



The little things give you away, the little things give you away

(All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you)