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Minority Report
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Jay-z
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[Intro: News Excerpts]
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The damage here along the gulf coast is catastrophic.
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There's a frantic effort under way tonight to find
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Survivors. There are an uncounted number of the dead tonight...
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People are being forced to live like animals...
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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...
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No water, I fought my country for years..
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We need help, we really need help..
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In Baghdad, they they drop, they air drop water, food to people.. Why can't they do that to their own people?
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The same idiots that can't get water into a major American city in less than three days are trying to
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Win a war...
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[Verse 1 - Jay-Z]
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People was poor before the hurricane came
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But the down pour poured is like when Mary J. Sang
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Every day it rains, so every day the pain
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But ignored them, 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 because they affected
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It's a dirty game so whatever is effective
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From weed to selling kane, 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 just to get a scoop
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Through his telescopic lens but he didn't scoop you
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The next five days, no help ensued
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They called you a refugee because you seek refuge
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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 fuel and just dropped
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Hu, That woulda been something to watch
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Helicopters doing fly-bys to take a couple of shots
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Couple of portraits then ignored 'em
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He'd be just another bush surrounded by a couple orchids
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Poor kids just 'cause they were poor kids
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Left 'em on they porches same old story in New Orleans
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Silly rappers, because we got a couple Porches
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Mtv stopped by to film our fortresses
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We forget the unfortunate
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Sure I ponied up a mill, but I didn't give my time
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So in reality I didn't give a dime, or a damn
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I just put my monies in the hands of the same people that left my people stranded
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Nothin' but a bandit
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Left them folks abandoned
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Damn, that money that we gave 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 than we was before
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In synopsis this is my minority report
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[Verse 2 - Ne-Yo]
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So many times I'm, covering my eyes
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Peeking through my fingers
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Tryin' to hide my, frustration at the way that we treat
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(Seems like we don't even care)
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Turn on the tv, seein' the pain
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Sayin' such a shame
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Then tryin' to go on with my life
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Of that, I too, am guilty
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(Seems like we don't even care)
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So we send a lil' money, 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 their whole life
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(Seems like we don't even care)
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Now it wasn't on the nightly news no more
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Suddenly it didn't matter to you no more
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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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[Outro: News Excerpts]
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... Buses are on the way to take those people from New Orleans to Houston
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... They lyin'
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... People are dying at the convention center
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... Their government has failed them
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... George Bush doesn't care about black people
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