The damage here along the
gulf coast is catastrophic
There's a frantic effort
under way 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 they drop
they air drop water
food to people
why cant 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 came
But the down pour poured is
like when Mary J sang
Every day it rains
so every day the pain
But ignored them
and showed em the risk was to blame
For life is a chain
cause and effected
Niggas 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
Wouldn't you loot
if you didn't have the loot
Baby needed food and
you stuck on the roof
Helicopter swooped down
just to get a scoop
Through his telescopic lens
but he didn't scoop you
The next five days
no help ensued
They called you a refugee
because you seek refuge
The commander in
chief just flew by
Did he stop
No he had a couple seats
Just proved jet blue he's not
Jet flew by the spot
What if he ran out of
jet fuel and just dropped
hu 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
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 Porches
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
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
In synopsis this is
my minority report
So many times
I'm covering my eyes
Peeking 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 lil money
tell 'em it's alright
To be able to sleep at night
You will pay that price
While some of these folks
lost their whole life
Seems like we don't even care
Now it wasn't
on the nightly news no more
Suddenly it didn't matter
to you no more
In the end almost nothing changed
What the hell what was that for
Seems like we don't even care
Buses are on the way
to take those people from
New Orleans to Houston
They lyin
People are dying at
the convention center
Their government has failed them
George Bush doesn't care
about black people
Seems like we don't even care