[Intro: News Excerpts] [简介：新闻摘录]

The damage here along the gulf coast is catastrophic. 这里的损害墨西哥湾沿岸是灾难性的。

There's a frantic effort under way tonight to find 还有正在进行今晚疯狂的努力，找到

survivors. There are an uncounted number of the dead tonight... 幸存者。有死者今晚的无数号码...

People are being forced to live like animals... 人们被迫活得像动物...

We are desperate... 我们都在拼命...

No one says the federal government is doing a good job.. 没有人说，联邦政府正在做一个好工作..

And hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people... 和成百上千，几百人...

No water, I fought my country for years.. 没有水，我打我的祖国多年..

We need help, we really need help.. 我们需要帮助，我们真的需要帮助..

In Baghdad, they they drop, they air drop water, food to people..why cant they do that to their own people? 在巴格达，他们累倒，他们空投水，食物people..why着他们这样对待自己的人民？

The same idiots that can't get water into a major American city in less than three days are trying to 同样的白痴不能把水变成一个主要的美国城市在不到三天的时间试图

win a war... 赢得一场战争...

   

[Verse 1 - Jay-Z] [诗歌1 - 杰伊-Z ]

People was poor before the hurricane came 人穷之前飓风来了

But the down pour poured is like when Mary J. sang 不过，倒浇下来就像是当玛丽·J·唱

Every day it rains, so every day the pain 天天下雨，天天如此痛苦

But ignored them, and showed em the risk was to blame 但是忽略了他们，并表明新兴市场的风险，无可厚非

For life is a chain, cause and effected 因为生命是一个链条，原因和影响

Niggas off the chain because they affected 黑鬼链子掉了，因为它们影响

It's a dirty game so whatever is effective 这是一个肮脏的游戏，所以无论是有效的

From weed to selling kane, gotta put that in effect 从杂草卖凯恩，总得把在效果

Wouldn't you loot, if you didn't have the loot? 难道你不打家劫舍，如果你没有足够的战利品？

Baby needed food and you stuck on the roof 宝宝需要的食物和你粘在屋顶上

Helicopter swooped down just to get a scoop 直升机俯冲而下，只是为了获得独家新闻

Through his telescopic lens but he didn't scoop you 通过他的伸缩式镜头，但他并没有舀你

The next five days, no help ensued 未来五天，没有帮助接踵而至

They called you a refugee because you seek refuge 他们说你是难民，因为你投靠

The commander-in-chief just flew by 该总司令刚刚飞过

Did he stop? No, he had a couple seats 他有没有停下来？不，他有一对夫妇的座位

Just proved jet blue he's not 恰恰证明了喷气蓝，他不是

Jet flew by the spot 喷气机飞过的斑点

What if he ran out of jet fuel and just dropped 如果他跑了喷气燃料的出来，只是下降

hu,That woulda been something to watch 胡那的woulda东西看

Helicopters doing fly-bys to take a couple of shots 直升机做飞越采取了几个镜头

Couple of portraits then ignored 'em 夫妇画像，然后忽略了时间

He'd be just another bush surrounded by a couple orchids 他会是另一个布什夫妇的兰花包围

Poor kids just 'cause they were poor kids 可怜的孩子只是因为他们是可怜的孩子

Left 'em on they porches same old story in New Orleans 左时间对他们的门廊同样的老故事在新奥尔良

Silly rappers, because we got a couple Porches 愚蠢的说唱歌手，因为我们有一对夫妇门廊

MTV stopped by to film our fortresses MTV停下来拍我们的堡垒

We forget the unfortunate 我们忘记了不幸

Sure I ponied up a mill, but I didn't give my time 当然，我ponied了一个工厂，但我没有给我的时间

So in reality I didn't give a dime, or a damn 因此，在现实中我没给一毛钱，还是该死的

I just put my monies in the hands of the same people that left my people stranded 我只是把我的资金在离开我的人相同的人被困在手中

Nothin' but a bandit 什么也不是强盗

Left them folks abandoned 离开了他们遗弃的人

Damn, that money that we gave was just a band-aid 妈的，这钱我们给了只是一个创可贴

Can't say we better off than we was before 不能说我们过得比我们从前

In synopsis this is my minority report 在简介这是我的少数派报告

Can't say we better off than we was before 不能说我们过得比我们从前

In synopsis this is my minority report 在简介这是我的少数派报告

   

[Verse 2 - Ne-Yo] [诗歌2 - 尼欧]

So many times I'm, covering my eyes 所以很多时候，我，包括我的眼睛

Peeking through my fingers 从我的指缝偷看

Tryin' to hide my, frustration at the way that we treat 试着去掩饰我的，沮丧的，我们对待的方式

(Seems like we don't even care) （好像我们甚至不关心）

Turn on the TV, seein' the pain 打开电视机，看见的“Daddy痛

Sayin' such a shame 说这样的耻辱

Then tryin' to go on with my life 然后试着去与我的生活

Of that, I too, am guilty 那，我也很内疚

(Seems like we don't even care) （好像我们甚至不关心）

So we send a lil' money, tell 'em it's alright 所以，我们送一个可爱的小的钱，告诉他们这是正常的

To be able to sleep at night 为了能在晚上睡觉

You will pay that price 你会付出代价

While some of these folks' lost their whole life 虽然这些人“失去了整个生活

(Seems like we don't even care) （好像我们甚至不关心）

Now it wasn't on the nightly news no more 现在是不是在晚间新闻没有更多

Suddenly it didn't matter to you no more 突然，根本不算什么，你没有更多的

In the end almost nothing changed 最后，几乎没有什么变化

What the hell, what was that for? 什么是地狱，那是什么呢？

(Seems like we don't even care) （好像我们甚至不关心）

   

[Outro: News Excerpts] [尾奏：新闻摘录]

...Buses are on the way to take those people from New Orleans to Houston ......巴士上把这些人从新奥尔良到休斯敦的方式

...They lyin' ......他们胡扯

...People are dying at the convention center ......人们死在会议中心

...Their government has failed them ......他们的政府没有他们

...George Bush doesn't care about black people ......乔治·布什不关心黑人