Tonart: A minor
Verse 1
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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...
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No one says the federal government
is doing a good job.
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And hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of people...
No water, I fought my country for years.
we really need help.
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In Baghdad, they they drop, they air drop water,
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food to people.why cant they do that to their own people?
The same idiots that can't get water into a major
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American city in less than three days are trying to
Verse 2
Win a war...
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People was poor before
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But the down pour poured is
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like when Mary J. sang
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Every day it rains, so every day the pain
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and showed em the risk was to blame
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For life is a chain, cause and effected
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Niggas off the chain be
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It's a dirty game so whatever
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From weed to selling kane,
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gotta put that in effect
if you didn't have the loot?
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Baby needed food and you stuck
on the roof
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Helicopter swooped down
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Through his telescopic lens but
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They called you a refugee because
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The commander- in- chief just flew by
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Did he stop? No, he had a couple seats
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Just proved jet blue he's not
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Jet flew by the spot
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What if he ran out of jet
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fuel and just dropped
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Hu, That woulda been
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Helicopters doing fly- bys
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to take a couple of shots
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He'd be just another bush surroun
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ded by a couple orchids
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Poor kids just 'cause they were poor kids
Left 'em on they porches same
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old story in New Orleans
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because we got a couple Porches
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MTV stopped by to film our fortresses
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We forget the un fortunate
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Sure I ponied up a mill,
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but I didn't give my time
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So in reality I didn't give a dime,
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I just put my monies in the hands of the same
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people that left my people stranded
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Nothin' but a bandit
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Left them folks abandoned
Damn, that money that we gave
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was just a band- aid
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Can't say we better off than we was before
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In synopsis this is my minority report
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Can't say we better off
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In synopsis this is my
Verse 3
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So many times I'm, covering my eyes
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Peeking through my fingers
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frustration at the way that we treat
(Seems like we don't even care)
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Turn on the TV, seein' the pain
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Then tryin' to go on with my life
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Of that, I too, am guilty
(Seems like we don't
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even care)
So we send a lil' money,
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tell 'em it's alright
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To be able to sleep at night
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You will pay that price
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While some of these folks' lost
(Seems like we don't even care)
Now it wasn't on the nightly
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Suddenly it didn't matter
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In the end almost nothing changed
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What the hell, what was that for?
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(Seems like we don't even care)
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...Buses are on the way to take those people from
Verse 4
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New Orleans to Houston
...They lyin'
...People are dying at the
convention center
...Their government has failed them
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...George Bush doesn't care about black people
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