Minority Report

Lyrics

[Intro: Excerpts from news reports] "The damage here along the Gulf Coast is catastrophicThere's a frantic effort underway tonight to find survivorsThere 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 peopleWhy can't they do that for their own people?""...the same idiots can't get a bottle of water into aMajor American city in three days are trying to win a war" [Verse: Jay-Z] People was poor before the hurricane came Before the downpour poured, it was like when Mary J. sang "Everyday It Rains," so everyday the painWent 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 effectiveFrom weed to sellin' 'caine, gotta put that in effect, shit Wouldn't you loot? If you didn't have the lootBaby needed food and you was stuck on the roof And helicopters swoop down just to get a scoopThrough 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 byDidn't stop, I know he had a couple seats Just rude – JetBlue, he's not, jet flew by the spotWhat 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 shotsCouple portraits, then ignored 'em He’d be just another Bush surrounded by a couple orchids Poor kids, just 'cause they was poor kidsLeft them on their 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 timeSo, in reality, I didn't give a dime Or a damn, I just put my monies in the handsOf the same people that left my people stranded Nothin' but a bandit, left them folks abandonedDamn, that money that we gave was just a Band-AidCan't say we better off than we was beforeIn synopsis, this is my Minority Report Can't say we better off than we was beforeIn synopsis, this is my Minority Report [Bridge: Ne-Yo] So many times I'm – coverin' my eyesPeekin' through my fingers, tryin' to hide myFrustration, at the way, that we treat(Seems like we don't even care)Turn on the TV, seein' the painSayin' "such a shame," then tryin' to go on with my lifeOf that, I too am guilty(Seems like we don't even care) So we send a little money, tell 'em it's alrightTo be able to sleep at nightYou will pay that price, but some of these folksHas 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' changedWhat the hell were they there for?(Seems like we don't even care) [Outro: More news excerpts (Ne-Yo)] Bush: "Buses are on the way to take thosePeople 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)