[00:00.000] 作詞 : Batson, Carter, DeCurtis, Fumo ...
[00:15.32]The damage here along the gulf coast is catastrophic
[00:17.44]There's a frantic effort under way tonight to find
[00:21.24]Survivors There are an uncounted number of the dead tonight
[00:25.36]People are being forced to live like animals
[00:28.61]We are desperate
[00:30.23]
[00:32.12]No one says the federal government is doing a good job
[00:37.05]And hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people
[00:39.49]No water I fought my country for years
[00:43.79]We need help we really need help
[00:46.04]In Baghdad they they drop they air drop water food to people
[00:49.60]Why can't they do that to their own people
[00:52.09]The same idiots that can't get water into a major American city
[00:57.40]In less than three days are trying to
[00:59.70]Win a war
[01:00.52]People was poor before the hurricane came
[01:02.01]But the down pour poured is like when Mary J sang
[01:05.44]Every day it rains so every day the pain
[01:08.26]But ignored them and showed em the risk was to blame
[01:11.01]For life is a chain cause and effected
[01:13.57]****** off the chain because they affected
[01:16.63]It's a dirty game so whatever is effective
[01:19.87]From **** to selling kane gotta put that in effect
[01:23.38]Wouldn't you loot if you didn't have the loot
[01:25.82]Baby needed food and you stuck on the roof
[01:28.56]Helicopter swooped down just to get a scoop
[01:31.55]
[01:32.23]Through his telescopic lens but he didn't scoop you
[01:35.10]The next five days no help ensued
[01:37.66]They called you a refugee because you seek refuge
[01:40.27]The commander-in-chief just flew by
[01:43.14]Did he stop No he had a couple seats
[01:45.89]Just proved jet blue he's not
[01:47.13]Jet flew by the spot
[01:49.07]What if he ran out of jet fuel and just dropped
[01:52.31]Hu That woulda been something to watch
[01:55.00]Helicopters doing fly-bys to take a couple of shots
[01:58.55]Couple of portraits then ignored 'em
[02:00.86]He'd be just another bush surrounded by a couple orchids
[02:04.17]Poor kids just 'cause they were poor kids
[02:06.41]Left 'em on they porches same old story in New Orleans
[02:10.55]Silly rappers because we got a couple Porches
[02:13.51]MTV stopped by to film our fortresses
[02:16.27]We forget the unfortunate
[02:18.13]Sure I ponied up a mill but I didn't give my time
[02:21.82]So in reality I didn't give a dime or a damn
[02:25.68]I just put my monies in the hands of the same people
[02:28.81]That left my people stranded
[02:30.30]Nothin' but a bandit
[02:31.93]Left them folks abandoned
[02:33.05]Damn that money that we gave was just a band-aid
[02:37.02]Can't say we better off than we was before
[02:39.02]In synopsis this is my minority report
[02:41.58]Can't say we better off than we was before
[02:44.89]In synopsis this is my minority report
[02:48.14]So many times I'm covering my eyes
[02:50.76]Peeking through my fingers
[02:52.44]Tryin' to hide my frustration at the way that we treat
[02:57.87](Seems like we don't even care)
[03:00.30]Turn on the TV seein' the pain
[03:03.11]Sayin' such a shame
[03:04.67]Then tryin' to go on with my life
[03:06.79]Of that I too am guilty
[03:09.79](Seems like we don't even care)
[03:11.91]So we send a lil' money tell 'em it's alright
[03:14.72]To be able to sleep at night
[03:16.96]You will pay that price
[03:18.27]While some of these folks' lost their whole life
[03:21.45](Seems like we don't even care)
[03:23.83]Now it wasn't on the nightly news no more
[03:26.20]Suddenly it didn't matter to you no more
[03:28.95]In the end almost nothing changed
[03:31.75]What the hell what was that for
[03:34.39](Seems like we don't even care)
[03:37.45] Buses are on the way to take those people from New Orleans to Houston
[03:41.19] They lyin'
[03:42.81] People are dying at the convention center
[03:45.37] Their government has failed them
[03:46.81] George Bush doesn't care about black people