You left them swimming for their lives down in New Orleans    Can't afford a gallon of gasoline    With your useless degrees and your contrary statistics    This government business is straight up sadistic       It’s a black rain    Said a black rain is gonna fall       You don't fight for us but expect us to die for you    You have no sympathy for us but still I cry for you    Now you may kill the revolutionary    But the revolution you can never bury       And it won’t be long ‘til the people flood the streets    And we come for you—one and all    That’s a black rain    That's a black rain    It’s gonna fall       Don't you dare speak to us like we work for you    Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to    I'm not a desperate man but these are desperate times at hand    This generation is beyond your command       It won’t be long ‘til the people flood the streets    And take you down—one and all    It’s a black rain       The black rain is gonna fall    Yeah it’s gonna fall    Gonna fall    Gonna fall