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Ark of Philadelphia - By MC Eric B
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Over the horizon
there's trouble up ahead
the rumblings of a storm
upon this ground we tread

Do secrets from the past
keep coming back around?
or have the winds of change
come blowing into town?

Here comes the flood
Here comes the rain
gonna set out on this journey
and start my life again

Chorus
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Searching for hope
searching for faith
show me a sign
help me find my place

Searching for love
searching for peace
no answers to find
give me something to believe

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Though I am no prophet
or old religious sage
I build my boat with lessons learned
from the battles we all wage

The walls of this city
no longer hold me in
As I close this chapter
a new one will begin

Time to raise the sails
cast my troubles out to sea
put my fate in better hands
and hope it sets me free

After the clouds
after the storm
you shine your light on my face
and make me safe and warm

Chorus
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Searching for hope
searching for faith
show me a sign
help me find my place

Searching for love
searching for peace
no answers to find
give me something to believe

Give me something
something to believe

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Ark of Philadelphia
- Caravan Ray

I was sitting one day underneath the coconut tree
When a Government man, he came up to me
He say The Algore say the sea gonna rise one day
Most likely that my village gonna wash away

Now this is most disturbing news to me
I think I should plan some contingency
So I gonna pack up my canoe
With two pigs, two chickens too
And just like old Noah waiting for the flood
I'll know what to to to

Hey! I'll sail away! I'll leave today! I'll go to Philadelphia, PA!

Now Philadelphia be the city of my dreams
Ever since I see a Playboy magazine
It was full of beautiful women who wear no clothes
I be thinking I wanna live a place where they got those

Then I see this lovely lady wearing only two white gloves
Look like a heavenly angel from above
It say she like walking in the rain
Kelly is her name
And she live in a place called The City of Brotherly Love*

Hey! I'll sail away! I'll leave today! I'll go to Philadelphia, PA!

They got no global warming in the USA
At least that's what their President George Bush say
While my home sinks in the sea
They live so happily
Watch the big screen plasma and drive the SUV

That's the place for me
Hey! I'll sail away! I'll leave today! I'll go to Philadelphia, PA!

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*Historical Note:
It is likely that the gentleman in the song stumbled across the April 1997 issue of Playboy with featured as its Playmate of the Month, Kelly Monaco, a Philadelphia native who went on to star in Baywatch and General Hospital.

Ark of Philadelphia
by Feldspar

one bittersweet day
i floated away
i floated away, oh
i floated away

i grew up in the city, where there
wasn't any room to breathe
so i tore the floodgates down
and built a raft and took it out to sea

they rounded the survivors up
and paired us off in groups of two
and you and i got stuck together
but that's ok `cause i'm in love with you

sailing gets rough when you're alone
it's cold and it's dark
but we're too far to turn now
look out on the sea, on philly's ark

if you and i were the last two people
left living in this sinking city
i wouldn't mind at all
`cause i'm alone and you're so pretty