(Intro)
First comes the joy and then comes the pain, then calm and then comes the change, then comes the storm and then comes the flame, God ordained give ‘em 40 nights of rain…
(Hook)
Yo I gotta thank The Arc, now all aboard the Ark as I flood the game with 40 nights of rain/and I had to build a boat, I’m hoping you can float when I flood the game with 40 nights of rain mayne/40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40 days and nights…
(Verse I)
Bring about a flood call me Noah to you flowers, gotta purge the verb, your measly reign is over/now I bring rain for you posers, tsunami, hurricane to you lame idol worshippers and foot soldiers/look soldier, move over, you was drunk off success now you washed up, so sober/flow colder, than polar, melt the ice caps when I overflow and shine like solar/throw ‘em overboard swallow rappers like Jonah for trying to play the martyr like Joan of Arc/fortified my Ark now embark on my journey to overflow the market and punish the unworthy/tide shall rise and shall not subside no time soon, Neptune controlling the moon/meet your doom, die from a verbal suffocation/drown the whole industry, purification…
(Hook)
Yo I gotta thank The Arc, now all aboard the Ark as I flood the game with 40 nights of rain/and I had to build a boat, I’m hoping you can float when I flood the game with 40 nights of rain mayne/40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40 days and nights…
(Verse II)
I give you 40 nights of rain as I wash away the fake, flow couldn’t be contained so I let the levee break/and now you get demolished, wordplay cause earthquakes that shift plate tectonics/save your comments you Gorilla Monsoon, the rainy season’s here you can feel the monsoon/high winds at high noon, check the weather channel, My 9 News, meteorologists can’t follow this/it’s a supernatural occurrence, wash away the fads in the current/wash ‘em all up like detergent, rappers submerging in my Hurricane Katrine-oxyclean/let the flood gates open, nobody believed he’d be mosaic Moses parting the sea, starting a siege/now people starting to see, but it’s too late you rap niggas under the sea…
(Hook)
Yo I gotta thank The Arc, now all aboard the Ark as I flood the game with 40 nights of rain/and I had to build a boat, I’m hoping you can float when I flood the game with 40 nights of rain mayne/40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40 days and nights…
(Verse III)
I say let the rain pour no umbrella could protect ya, flood the promised land then I resurrect the Mecca/the new golden era will emerge from the terror, upper echelon rap renaissance, Judecca/flood the world with a twirl of my scepter, purify the ill, the sickly and the lepers/and my steppers, march with the band of Sergeant Pepper’s, down “Penny Lane”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”/I weathered the flood, brought about a storm like Ororo Monroe, gung-ho for new material/I flow like Tigris or Euphrates, the Poseidon of rhyming drowning you into Hades/my rain was relentless, now it’s too late for repentance, drowning the whole game in my vengeance/flame brought decadence, never use the same flow, after the rain Poe gonna bring the rainbow…
(Hook)
Yo I gotta thank The Arc, now all aboard the Ark as I flood the game with 40 nights of rain/and I had to build a boat, I’m hoping you can float when I flood the game with 40 nights of rain mayne/40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40, 40 nights (make it rain), 40 nights, 40 days and nights…
(Outro)
First comes the joy and then comes the pain, then calm and then comes the change, then comes the storm and then comes the flame, God ordained give ‘em 40 nights of rain, Poe!