5 Cent Coffee - River Flow Backward

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Words and Music written by
Ricardo Zegri & Heidi Wohlwend

We wrote this song as a love letter to the great city of New Orleans after Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf Coast in the summer of 2021.

Lyrics:
River Flow Backward
Ricardo Zegri & Heidi Wohlwend 2021

High water
on Burgundy
Wind on the lamppost, shaking the beads
The carnival queens
close their shutters on me
Blood in the water
feeds the roots of the tree

The barflies and the coppers
Have taken their leave
While a trombone blows the last notes of Basin Street
The doors are all closed
but the High Life’s still cold
The sons and the daughters
put those dark clouds to sleep

Bridge:
400 years
Calliope’s dream sings the river to the sea
A desert of tears on Elysian Fields
All this water
But no mouth to drink

The prince and the pauper
the lover, the thief
Find brothers and sisters in the family of grief
but there is a light
that never goes out
Shines through the water
Under my feet

Firewater
and the spray of the sea
Can’t wash the smell off of Bourbon Street
But music will play
at the Carnival parade
the sound of your laughter
Will bring back the spring

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