Flooded

Pounded by the hurricane but finished off by the government

Trapped in Katrina’s aftermath by George’s emergency management

Stranded on the rooftops are the people left for dead

Waving franticly to their leader, who’s flying safely overhead

He’s been too busy raising money for his own political gain

To throw the city a lifeline when it’s sinking down the drain

So the supplies supposedly on route meet another inexplicable delay

The rising tide of bureaucracy has washed all hope away

Flooded with bureaucracy

Flooded with the lies

Flooded with excuses as the political damage starts to rise

Wading through the politics

Wading through the culpable

Wading through the talking points that defend those most responsible

Submerged under the failure

Submerged under inaction

Submerged under the photo-ops staged as a distraction

Drowned by the incompetence

Drowned by the indifference

Drowned by the government’s undisputable negligence

The backdrop is erected and the cameras relay the determination

Of a battered incompetent president looking to stop the devastation

Not for the victims but for his own declining ratings

So he parades his presence in front of the nation to initiate the rebuilding

Not of New Orleans but solely for his image

It’s only his agenda that he really wants to salvage

Empty promises of endless resources, his absence rationalized

He flies in for his photo-op and afterwards his commitment subsides

Flooded with bureaucracy

Flooded with the lies

Flooded with excuses as the political damage starts to rise

Wading through the politics

Wading through the culpable

Wading through the talking points that defend those most responsible

Submerged under the failure

Submerged under inaction

Submerged under the photo-ops staged as a distraction

Drowned by the incompetence

Drowned by the indifference

Drowned by the government’s undisputable negligence

If you are poor

It’s time to sink or swim

If you are black

It’s time to sink or swim

Those people were forgotten

Those people were stranded

Those people were betrayed

Those people were abandoned

He promised to protect the people but he’s abandoned them instead

In terms of Bush’s legacy what’s another thousand dead?

He rounded up the National Guard to defend American interests in Iraq

When he can’t even defend this country against a hurricane’s attack

He embraces cronyism and surrounds himself with friends

The unqualified allies that he installed are the only people he defends

A pat on the back for Chertoff and words of praise for Brown

As they all stood idly by and watched an entire city drown

Flooded with bureaucracy

Flooded with the lies

Flooded with excuses as the political damage starts to rise

Wading through the politics

Wading through the culpable

Wading through the talking points that defend those most responsible

Submerged under the failure

Submerged under inaction

Submerged under the photo-ops staged as a distraction

Drowned by the incompetence

Drowned by the indifference

Drowned by the government’s undisputable negligence