Тексты песен «Gil Scott-Heron»

We deal in too many externals, brother Always afros, handshakes, and dashikis Never can a man build a working structure for black capitalism Always does the man read Mao or Fanon I think I know you would-be black...

It was not enough that we were bought and brought to this home as the slave locked in the bowels of a floating shithouse watching those we love eaten away by plauge and insanity flesh falling like strips of bark from a...

In 1600 I was a darkie Until 1865, a slave In 1900 I was a nigga Or at least, that was my name In 1960 I was a negro And then brother Malcolm came along And then some nigga shot Malcolm down But the bitter truth lives...

(Verse 1) I'm gonna take myself a peice of sunshine And paint it all over my sky Be no rain... Be no rain... (Verse 2) I'm gonna take the song from every bird And make em sing it just for me Bird's got something to...

I know you've been hurt by someone else I can tell by the way you carry yourself But if you let me here's what i'll do: I'll take care of you I've loved and loved the same as you so you see i know what you've been...

No, no, no, no I did not become someone different I did not want to be But I'm new here Will you show me around? No matter how far wrong you've gone You can always turn around Met a woman in a bar I told her I...

Ever feel kinda down and out, you don't know just what to do Livin' all of your days in darkness let the sun shine through Ever feel that somehow, somewhere you lost your way And if you don't get a help quick you won't...

Early this morning when you knocked upon my door (2x) An I say Hello Satan I believe its time to go Me and the Devil Walking side by side (2x) And I'm gonna see my woman 'til I get satisfied See See You don't see...

Hey, yeah, we the same brothas from a long time ago We was talkin? about television and doin? it on the radio What we did was to help our generation realize They had to get out there and get busy cause it wasn't gonna...

A giant eye zapped across the screen With tentacle type feeler type thin roots Reaching for someone maybe me With large black block letters Chiseled into the white around the pupils screaming R e v o l u t i o n...

I want to make this a special tribute To a family that contradicts the concepts Heard the rules but wouldn'??t accept And women-folk raised me And I was full grown before I knew I came from a broken home Sent to live...

Picture a man of nearly thirty Who seems twice as old with clothes torn and dirty Give him a job shining shoes Or cleaning out toilets with bus station crews Give him six children with nothing to eat Expose them to life...

Jagged jigsaw pieces Tossed about the room I saw my Grandma sweeping With her old straw broom But she didn't what she was doing She could hardly understand That she was really sweeping up Pieces of a man I saw my Daddy...

Glad to get high and see the slow motion world Just to reach, and touch, the half notes floating Worlds spinning orbit quicker than 9/8ths Dave Brubeck We come now, frantically searching for Thomas Moore, rainbow...

Because I always feel like running Not away, because there is no such place Because, if there was I would have found it by now Because it's easier to run, Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one... who...

This is just like listening to a conversation being held by the many people who congregate on one of the most popular blocks in the largest area of black America Did you ever eat cornbread and black eye peas Or...

You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will...

The Subject Was Faggots and the quote was "ain't nothin' happenin' but faggots and dope" Faggots and dope, faggots and faggots and faggots who line dot dot dot dot dot Like that, 34th street and 8th avenue Giggling and...

Standing in the ruins Of another Black man's life or flying through the valley They're separating day and night "I am death," cried the Vulture "For the people of the light." Charon brought his raft and came from the...

Here come the mine cars; it'sdamn near dawn. Another shift of men, some of my friends, comin' on. Hard to imagine workin' in the mines; Coal dust in your lungs, on your skin and on your mind. I've listened to the...