are dying. They have homes. They don't jobs. The city of New Orleans never be the same Now let's get off your asses and let's do and let's fix the goddamn crisis in the history of this country
Guess it come down to this. In order to see things for what they are and what is. We still may not be free up in this piece or very equally as far as I can see. now if you saw I saw And see what I see on the TV lead me to write this song talking to my father. But the in this song seem to write it's damn self... No We Ain't Alright (It's boy Son of a Bush. Hahaha.)
Now all these press conferences and news alert [this just in] your government looks for a war to win. Claim for the game, names where I begin Walls closin, to get some help to my kin While the rest of this Bush stands the drama unfolds as we the people under the Fifty percent of Son of a Bush nation is hatin on hatin aspect of assassination Ask Pat Robinson, him like terrorism] Racism in the news, one sided views. whites find food Pray for the National Guard who be to shoot because they be sayin us blacks
New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and (Hell no! Hell no. We Alright!) New in the mornin, afternoon, and night (Hell no! Hell no. We Alright!) New in the mornin, afternoon, and night (Hell no! no. We Ain't Alright!) New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and (Hell no!) damn. "Neva than" - "Bring the Noise"
Now them is quick, tsunamis, I don't mean to scare Wasn't this somewhere? Disgraces, all I been seein is black faces Moved out to harm in far away [Emergency] statements, corpses, alligators, and Big between this haze and [the little diamonds on the VMAs] Betta look what's important, y'all under the sun if you are over 21 (This no TV show) ain't no video (this is really real!) hearin' the same old keep it real Posin' for TV stars, big rim cars [But these streets be bloody, b] no matter you at no gas Driving a (urgency) Don't y'all (It's in a state of emergency) somebody's government is far from reality Somebody's government is far reality!
New in the mornin, afternoon, and night (Hell no! Hell no. We Alright!) New in the mornin, afternoon, and night (Hell no! no. We Ain't Alright! We got a problem.) New in the mornin, afternoon, and night (Hell no! Hell no. We Alright!) New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and (Hell no!)
And they don't have a clue what's going on down And I'm like, you gotta be me This is a natural Anyway you look at it, a tragedy. awful down here, man God is lookin on all this And if they aren't doing everything in their to save people are gonna pay the price Do you where I'm coming from?
Now I see we be the new faces of We ain't even overseas, but stuck on our knees Forget the plasma TV, no electricity New upside down and out of order Shelter? Food? Wassup, [where's the No from disaster, them masses hurtin' So who the f- we call - Son of a Bush, how you wanna just that cat to fix shit, when all the help is in Iraq? Makin war plans, takin more stands Afghanistan 2, 000 there dyin in the sand. But that's over there, right? over here?] Is a noise so That some can't But on TV I can see Bunches of Looking just me And they all right (Wait wait wait yo yo what?)
New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and (Hell no! Hell no. We Alright!) in the mornin, afternoon, and night (Hell no! no. We Ain't Alright!) Alabama in the mornin, afternoon, and (Hell no! Hell no. We Alright!) USA in the mornin, afternoon, and (Hell no! no. We Ain't Alright.)
We ain't alright. And of y'all voted for that cat! Son of a Bush. That's right, what God giveth sometimes country taketh away I'mma see y'all at the man march Tenth year aniversary of the man march. That's right the are gonna drop, and that's right, fahrenheit Yeah. And many of our people and our organizations are now in Washington DC October 16th y'all... We had all these issues to talk about, we got more issues to about now Betta yet, to listen to and spread Yeah... Comin from Public Enemy. one y'all... Public Enemy 2005 Public 2006. Yeah. Public Enemy 2007 (Let me tell y'all All of our hearts is out with y'all, you know what I'm sayin? And we sendin trucks, we boats, boxes of cans of soup... and everything and all of that. shoes We everything to y'all, you know what I'm saying? Don't worry, y'all by yourself, you need to know that)