Long before August of 2005
this city was swept by a vicious tide.
Now we're hoping for better, getting the worst.
Feels like somebody's snatched our purse.
Rent and utilities are obscenely high.
Two jobs are needed just to get by.
Children are bussed miles due to "lack of space".
Yet neighborhood schools sit empty all over the place.
Claiming a lack of revenue, RSD's doing the best they say they can do.
But, we have city officials driving big cars and pumping free gas.
While the parents of these children bust their ass,
still come up short on food, clothes and cash.
Come on y'all something ain't right.
Did those federal dollars just up and take flight?
We understand the city is struggling with post-storm reconstruction.
but, it still seems business as usual with political corruption.
What's up Ray Nagin?
I think you better check your boys before you're likened to Dicken's Fagin.
With parts of New Orleans still just desolate space,
your former supporters want to get in your face.
For too many years, we've lived with graft, bloodshed and tears.
We became known as the city that care forgot.
Is anybody ready to have this moniker dropped?
If we get off our collective ass we can make our infamy a thing of the past.
See, no matter how far we go or how long we stay gone,
This city is still our home.
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