Sunday, April 30, 2006
Bruce Springsteen on New Orleans
Bruce on our President Bystander's reaction to New Orleans. Remember, it took a furious mayor's rants from a city without power to get President George W Bush to come off vacation during this crisis:
Newsvine - Springsteen Expresses New Orleans' Pain Perhaps the most pointed moment came as he prepared to sing an old song that he had rewritten lyrics to for New Orleans. Noting that he visited the city's ninth ward, perhaps the most devastated area in the city, Springsteen said: "I saw sights I never thought I'd see in an American city," and added: "The criminal ineptitude makes you furious."
With that, he launched into a song titled "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" and dedicated the song to "President Bystander." Its lyrics included the lines: "There's bodies floatin' on Canal and the levees gone to hell ... them who's got out of town, and them who ain't got left to drown, tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?
