Artist/Band:
Jay-Z
Lyrics for Song: Minority Report
Lyrics for Album: Kingdom Come [2006]
[Intro: news excerpts]
The damage here along the Gulf Coast is catastrophic.
There's a frantic effort underway tonight to find survivors.
There are an uncounted number of the dead tonight ,
People are being forced to live like animals ,
We are desperate ,
No one says the federal government is doing a good job ,
And hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people ,
No water, I fought my country for years ,
We need help, we really need help ,
In Baghdad, they drop, they air drop water, food to people.
Why can't they do that to their own people?
The same idiots that can't get water into a major American
city in less than three days are trying to win a war
,<a class="footnote" href="#1">[1]</a>
[Jay-Z]
People was poor before the hurricane came<a class="footnote"
href="#2">[2]</a>
Before the downpour poured is like when Mary J. sang
Every day it rains, so every day the pain
Went ignored, and I'm sure ignorance was to blame
But life is a chain, cause and effected
N*ggas off the chain because they affected
It's a dirty game so whatever is effective
From weed to selling kane,
gotta put that in effect, sh*t<a class="footnote" href="#3">[3]</a>
Wouldn't you loot, if you didn't have the loot?
And your baby needed food and you were stuck on the roof
And a helicopter swooped down just to get a scoop
Through his telescopic lens but he didn't scoop you<a
class="footnote" href="#4">[4]</a>
And the next five days, no help ensued
They called you a refugee because you seek refuge
And the commander-in-chief just flew by
Didn't stop, I know he had a couple seats
Just rude, JetBlue he's not
Jet flew by the spot
What if he ran out of jet fuel and just dropped
Huh, that woulda been something to watch
Helicopters doing fly-bys to take a couple of shots
Couple of portraits then ignored 'em
He'd be just another bush surrounded by a couple orchids<a
class="footnote" href="#5">[5]</a>
Poor kids just 'cause they were poor kids
Left 'em on they porches same old story in New Orleans
Silly rappers, because we got a couple Porsches
MTV stopped by to film our fortresses
We forget the unfortunate
Sure I ponied up a mill, but I didn't give my time
So in reality I didn't give a dime,
or a damn<a class="footnote" href="#6">[6]</a>
I just put my monies in the hands of the same people
That left my people stranded
Nothin but a bandit
Left them folks abandoned
Damn, that money that we gave was just a Band-Aid
Can't say we better off than we was before
In synopsis this is my minority report
Can't say we better off than we was before<a class="footnote"
href="#7">[7]</a>
In synopsis this is my minority report
[Ne-Yo]
So many times I'm, coverin' my eyes
Peekin' through my fingers, tryin' to hide my
Frustration, at the way, that we treat
(Seems like we don't even care)
Turn on the TV, seein' the pain
Sayin' such a shame, then tryin' to go on with my life
Of that, I too am guilty
(Seems like we don't even care)
So we send a little money, tell 'em it's alright
'Til we able to sleep at night
You will pay that price, but some of these folks
Has lost they whole life
(Seems like we don't even care)
And then it wasn't on the nightly news no mo'
Suddenly it didn't matter to you no mo'
It went on and almost nothin' changed
What the hell were they there for?
(Seems like we don't even care)
[Outro: news excerpts (Ne-Yo)]
Bush: "Buses are on the way to take those
People from New Orleans, to Houston"
(Seems like we don't even care)
"They lie"
"People are dying, at the Convention Center" (ohh)
"Their government has failed them" (ohh)
Kanye West: "George Bush doesn't care about black people"
(Seems like we don't even care)
(Seems like we don't even care)
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