Dollar Day(Album Version|Explicit) - Mos Def

So there's a story about
The lady in Louisiana
She's a flood survivor
And the rescue teams
They come through
And they
I guess tryna recover people
And they see this women
She's wadin through the streets
I guess it'd been
Some time after the storm
And I guess they were shocked
That you know she was alive
And rescue worker said
So oh my God h-how
Did you survive
How did you do it
Where've you been
And she said
Where I been
Where you been
Hah Where you been
You understand
That's about the size of it
This for the streets
The streets everywhere
The streets affected
By the storm called
America
I'm doin this for y'all
And for me for the Creator
God save these streets
One dollar per every human being
Feel that Katrina clap
See that Katrina clap
Listen homie
It's Dollar Day in New Orleans
It's water water everywhere
And people dead in the streets
And Mr President
He bout that cash
He got a policy for handlin
The niggaz and trash
And if you poor you black
I laugh a laugh they won't
Give when you ask
You better off on crack
Dead or in jail
Or with a gun in Iraq
And it's as simple as that
No opinion my man
It's mathematical fact
Listen a million poor since 2004
And they got -illions and
Killions to waste on the war
And make you question
What the taxes is for
Or the cost to reinforce
The broke levee wall
Tell the boss
He shouldn't be the boss anymore
Y'all pray amin
God save these streets
One dollar per every human being
Feel that Katrina clap
See that Katrina clap
God save these streets
Quit bein' cheap ni**a
Freedom ain't free
Feel that Katrina clap
See that Katrina clap
Lord have mercy
Lord God God save our soul
A God save our soul a God
A God save our souls
Lord God God save our soul
A God save our soul soul soul
Soul survivor
It's Dollar Day in New Orleans
It's water water everywhere
And babies dead in the streets
It's enough to make you holler out
Like where the f**k is Sir Bono
And his famous friends now
Don't get it twisted man I dig U2
But if you ain't about the
Ghetto then f**k you too
Who care bout rock 'n roll
When babies can't eat food
Listen homie man that sh*t ain't cool
It's like Dollar Day for New Orleans
It's water water everywhere
And homies dead in the streets
And Mr President's a natural a**
He out treatin niggaz worse
Than they treat the trash
God save these streets
One dollar per every human being
Feel that Katrina Clap
See that Katrina Clap
God save these streets
Quit bein cheap ni**a
Freedom ain't free
Feel that Katrina Clap
See that Katrina Clap
Soul survivor
God God God save our soul
A God save our soul
A God a God save our soul
Lord God God save our soul
A God save our soul
A God a God save
Lord did not intend
For the wicked to rule the world
Say God did not intend
For the wicked to rule the world
God did not intend
For the wicked to rule the world
And even when they
Knew it's a matter of truth
Before they wick-ed ruling is through
God save these streets
A Dollar Day for New Orleans
God save these streets
Quit bein cheap homie
Freedom ain't free
God save these streets
One dollar per every human being
Feel that Katrina Clap
See that Katrina Clap
God save these streets
Quit bein cheap ni**a
Freedom ain't free
Feel that Katrina Clap Ha
Ghetto Katrina Clap Ha
Soul survivor
Lord God God save our soul
A God save God save our soul
Feel that Katrina Clap
Let's make them dollars stack
And rebuild these streets
God save these streets
God save these streets
God save the soul
Feel that Katrina Clap
See that Katrina Clap
Soul survivor
Don't talk about it
Be about it
Peace
Dollar Day - Mos Def