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see the black man down in New Orleans
waist deep in the flood waters wading gunfire crackles in the distance the last glimmer of daylight is fading he didn't have much to begin with now his world has come all unglued he's on his way to bust into a grocery store to get his family water and food new orleans new orleans 2005 now see the president way up in his airplane he says zero tolerance for looters one thing this president really knows how to do is to send in the guns and the shooters but less bullets more boats beds and blankets and a few hundred lives he might save ah but blaming the victim is what we do best here in the home of the brave new orleans new orleans 2005 they say the president loves all americans no matter the color or creed but you decide for yourself where the real truth resides is it found in the word or the deed if you say you don't think that it's racist maybe this'll cut through your dense mental haze just try and imagine a whole stadium full of white people left to fend for themselves for six days well i don't think it would've happened quite that way new orleans new orleans 2005 now if there's good that can come from this tragedy it's that maybe things'll get rearranged lord knows over in washington d.c. we're long overdue for regime change one hundred eighty six million dollars they spend on the war in iraq every day with just a fraction of that they could've shored up those levees and kept the floodwaters at bay new orleans new orleans 2005 Copyright Samm Bennett - all rights reserved back to Lyrics Table of Contents |
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