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Something In You

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

Hello my friend I can see by the look in your eyes you're tired Tired of trying Tired of this world

The pain and suffering is too deep Tied up to my knees to my head in worries Full of trouble I cannot see

You are no different than I my friend And, you see, though we aren't the same We are We're bound not by choice but by chance to this universe This planet we call home And the countries and states of great escape Cannot quit under pain alone

There's nothing with out someone and something in you There's life inside love and it's beautiful too Can you make me want to see this world through?

There's nothing with out someone and something in you How he wished he could say he already knew Though from time he'll tire of stretching the truth If we don't unite we'll drown in life too

There's nothing with out someone and something in you

So many of our people are crying Don't turn around They're lying dying from heat A cold cold death If you listen in silence you'll hear their last breath Louder than New Orleans could ever sing 'Take care of everything'

And my friend if you try not to cry It won't help this world come together at all For each tear is a voice A scream of suffering that makes a wearry heart fall

The only way to show the man Who seems to have time on his hands To wait and watch as our homes crumble at our feet Is to wake while he sleeps and creep deep deep

Into the heart of the worry and pray Because God knows And it shows When He's mad or proud And it changes each day Help us take that man away

There's nothing with out someone and something in you There's life inside love and it's beautiful too Can you make me want to see this world through?

There's nothing with out someone and something in you How he wished he could say he already knew Our 'leader' must tire of stretching the truth If we don't unite we'll drown in life too

There's nothing with out someone and something in you

If we bond together we can make it through This natural disaster that 'nobody knew' There's nothing with out someone But I know there's something - in you

Citation

“Something In You,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26203.