JAY-Z, Ne-Yo - Minority Report 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"

"Please send stuff here we are desperate"

"No one says the federal government
Is doing a good job"
"and hundreds and hundreds and
Hundreds of people "

"No water yeah
And I fought for my country for years"

"We need help we really need help"

"In Baghdad, they-they drop, they
Airdrop - water, food to people
Why can't they do that
For their own people?"

"the same idiots can't get a
Bottle of water into a
Major American city in three days are
Trying to win a war"

People was poor before the hurricane came
Before the downpour poured
It was like when Mary J sang
Everyday it rains, so everyday the pain
Went ignored and I'm sure
Ignorance was to blame
But life is a chain, cause and effected
Niggas off the chain, because they affected
It's a dirty game
It's whatever is effective
From weed to sellin' 'caine, gotta
Put that in effect, shit
Wouldn't you loot? If you
Didn't have the loot
Baby needed food and you was
Stuck on the roof
And helicopters swoop down just
To get a scoop through his telescopic lens
But he didn't scoop you
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 Jet blue, he's not
Jet flew by the spot what if he ran out of
Jet fuel and just dropped
Huh, that woulda been somethin' to watch
Helicopters doin' fly-bys to take
A couple shots
Couple portrait's, then ignored 'em
He’d be just another Bush surrounded
By a couple orchids
Poor kids, just 'cause they was poor kids
Left them on they porches
Same old story in New Orleans
Silly rappers, cause we got a couple Porsches
MTV stopped by to film our fortresses
We forget the unfortunate
Sure, I ponied up a mil' but
I didn't give my time
So in reality I didn't give a dime
Or a damn, 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 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
In 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
To be 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)