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