JAY Z feat. Ne-Yo Minority Report song lyrics

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,People was poor before the hurricane cameBefore 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*tWouldn'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 youAnd 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 orchidsPoor 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 damnI 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 beforeIn synopsis this is my minority report

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)

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)