Key: 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 hundred s and hundreds
and hundreds of people...
No water, I fought my country for years.
Dm
We need help,
we really need help.
Bdim
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In Baghdad, they they drop, they air drop wa ter,
Dm
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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Amer ican 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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the hurricane came
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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
Am
But ignored them,
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and showed em the risk was to blame
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Dm
For life is a chain, cause and effected
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Niggas off the chain be
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cause they affected
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It's a dirty game so whatever
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is effective
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From weed to selling kane,
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gotta put that in effect
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Wouldn't you loot,
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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just to get a scoop
Am
Through his telescopic lens but
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he didn't scoop you
Am
The next five days,
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no help en sued
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They called you a refugee because
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you seek refuge
Am
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
Am
What if he ran out of jet
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fuel and just dropped
Am
Hu, That woulda been
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something to watch
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Heli copters doing fly- bys
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to take a couple of shots
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Couple of portraits
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then ignored 'em
Am
He'd be just another bush surroun
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ded by a couple orchids
Am
Poor kids just 'cause they were poor kids
Left 'em on they porches same
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old story in New Orleans
Am
Silly rappers,
Dm
because we got a couple Porches
Am
Dm
MTV stopped by to film our fortresses
Am
Dm
We forget the un fortunate
Am
Sure I ponied up a mill,
Dm
but I didn't give my time
Am
Dm
So in reality I didn't give a dime,
Am
or a damn
Dm
Am
I just put my mon ies in the hand s of the same
Dm
people that left my people stranded
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Nothin' but a bandit
Dm
Am
Left them folks aban doned
Damn, that money that we gave
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Am
was just a band- aid
Dm
Can't say we better off than we was before
Am
Dm
In synopsis this is my minority report
Am
Can't say we better off
Dm
than we was be fore
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In synopsis this is my
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minority re port
Verse 3
Am
Dm
So many times I'm, covering my eyes
Am
Peeking through my fingers
Dm
Tryin' to hide my,
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frustration at the way that we treat
(Seems like we don't even care)
Dm
Am
Turn on the TV, seein' the pain
Dm
Sayin' such a shame
Am
Then tryin' to go on with my life
Dm
Am
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
Am
Dm
To be able to sleep at night
Am
You will pay that price
Dm
While some of these folks' lost
Am
their whole life
(Seems like we don't even care)
Now it wasn't on the nightly
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news no more
Am
Suddenly it didn't matter
Dm
to you no more
Am
Dm
In the end almost nothing changed
Am
What the hell, what was that for?
Dm
(Seems like we don't even care)
Am
Dm
...Buses are on the way to take those people from
Verse 4
Am
New Orleans to Houston
...They lyin'
...People are dying at the
convention center
...Their government has failed them
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Am
Dm
...George Bush doesn't care about black people
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