| new orleans 2005: a protest song | ||||||||||||
| see the black man down in New Orleans waist deep in the floodwaters 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 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 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 |
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I was outraged and appalled by the Bush government's disregard for the safety and well-being of those citizens of New Orleans (overwhelmingly poor/working class and African-American) left to fend for themselves in the days following hurricane Katrina. This song attempts to articulate some of that anger, as well as express some hope for change. |
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New Orleans 2005 has elicited some responses which you can read here |
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| click here for stereo mp3 (7.8mb) of New Orleans 2005 | ||||||||||||
| click here for mono mp3 (3.9mb) of New Orleans 2005 | ||||||||||||
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