The Saudis are ever our friends and our alliesnThe President smokes cigars with their Princes on his lanainAnd across the street a mother sleeps with her babys ghostnWrapped in pink and spotlightsnnIf I was a tidal wave well you know that I'dnRise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and drynDisappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails and goodbyesnnWell my name is propagandanAnd my mama's pain is propagandanIf I was a tidal wavenI'd let the Union fallnYeah if I was a tidal wavenI'd be first against the wallnnBack in 1980 Mayor Young he sent the keynTo the city of Detroit to praise the best of enemiesnWho shook hands with devil, now he runs the DODnAnd spends livesnnIf I was a tidal wave well you know that I'dnRise up and crash your castle gate and leave you high and drynDisappear you down this trail of busted years to ride the rails and goodbyesnnIf I was a tidal wavenFrom coast to coast I'd screamnIf I was a tidal wavenI'd wash this whole place clean