Out of Your Shoes

 

"Running out of your shoes" as a metaphor running out ways to evade law and order.  When Marcos fell, Imelda abandoned thousands of pairs of shoes. The other lines had to do with recollections of 9/11 a year after, and the "sound of democracy" in New Orleans post-Katrina in 2005. 

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Called Dan Rather
Put me live on the air
The sound of democracy
Something's in the air

Heard a freight train
This thing coming down
People have run out
Run out of their shoes

Ran into the subway
Ran into a place
Asked to use the phone
To find another place

Called Dan Rather
Put me live on the air
The sound of democracy
Something's in the air

People Power
Start a revolution
From power to an ouster
Political solutions

Museums for the jewels
Museums for the loot
Imelda got the boot
She ran out of her shoes