Wealthy people like to live, live near the water

They’ll pass their real estate down to their sons

And their daughters

Generations of happy, just enjoying the view

But when the waters start rising, you know what

They’re gonna do:

The Rich will move to the high ground

The Rich will move to the high ground

Oh, oh, look at your town

The Rich will move to the high ground

All those singers and actors and philanthropists

Say the poor are at the top of their priority list

But when the levees start breaking, and the barriers

Fall

Where will they be when we come to pay a courtesy

Call?

With their mistresses, wives, pets, children and all

At the top of a hill, behind a fortified wall

The Rich will move to the high ground

The Rich will move to the high ground

Oh, oh, look at your town

The Rich will move to the high ground

With every sad number that the scientists find

You get the feeling that some people really don’t mind

To see a new feudal age for the whole human race

Cause the rabble will finally be all back in their

Place

There’ll be no revolution, we’ll be weak as wet

Mouses

Begging them to let our children serve in their

Houses

The Rich will move to the high ground

The Rich will move to the high ground

Oh, oh, look at your town

The Rich will move to the high ground