Christine Lavin - The Peter Principle At Work lyrics

Never had we felt our country more divided then Republicans came to New York to sway those few undecided three miles south of where they gathered in this town there's a deep dark empty hole in the ground All of us who live here were shaken by that day and the weeks and months that followed, some pain never goes away the delegates all made the pilgrimage down to Ground Zero pose for photographs with each reluctant hero After 9/11 we had the sympathy of the world though we cried we felt pride every time our flag unfurled three years down the line that sympathy is gone he said 'mission accomplished' as the battles raged on how can mission be accomplished with the battles raging on? We know exactly how many Americans have died in Iraq but we never see the photos of the coffins coming back we see photos of the torture that was done in our name lots of fingers pointing but no one taking blame A filmmaker from Flint Michigan makes a movie you won't see shines a spotlight on the dark side of our democracy you'd rather close your eyes than engage us in debate the platform of the uninformed breeds the politics of hate New York City is everything so many of you fear Chinese Korean Russian even Arabic spoken here Ha**idic Jews and lesbians living right next door to single mothers raising kids while daddy's off to war there are single fathers raising kids while mommy's off to war Sent there by a leader who never had a clue but never had a single doubt about what he should do he thinks God made him president, heaven knows we didn't do it is it time for us to say 'Oh Lawdy, oh Lawdy, somebody blew it' Or are we witnessing the Peter Principle at work? the highest level of incompetence still expecting every perk? or have we all gone crazy? could we be dead wrong? can the righteous be defeated by the stupid and the strong? or will we be blacklisted because we wrote this song?