Certain Things (Interlude) Gil Scott-Heron

Certain bad things did happen Make you realize that you been here A lot longer than a whole bunch of people thought you would

Being Blessed (Interlude) Gil Scott-Heron

Being blessed is not just being able to float on air I'm saying if you gotta pay for Things that you've done wrong I gotta big bill comin' At the end of the day

Parents (Interlude) Gil Scott-Heron

I believe that the spirits are your parentsAnd their parents and their parents and their parentsAnd they are in your bloodstreamAnd they run through your body constantlyBecause they want you to liv...

I Was Guided (Interlude) Gil Scott-Heron

I was guided I was guided I was guided To get here To get here To get here

I've Been Me (Interlude) Gil Scott-Heron

If I hadn't been As eccentric As obnoxious As arrogant As aggressive As introspective As selfish I wouldn't be me I wouldn't be who I am

The Other Side Gil Scott-Heron

place, ain't no real race Ain't no other side Life is like a circle and you end up where you started If you end up where you started ain't no other side Yeah, but if life is like a curtain that I'm 90% certain

Better Days Ahead Gil Scott-Heron

And now it's time To gather all the things we need to fly To better days ahead Just wave goodbye We've better things to do now, you and I In better days ahead Just take my hand You're one I need to understand

Save The Children Gil Scott-Heron

If you're driving through the country on a lazy afternoon Or you're watching your children playin' after school They seem to be so unaware of I know I know The things that they soon have to take care

Save The Children (With Brian Jackson) (Live) (Bonus Track) Gil Scott-Heron

"If you're driving through the country on a lazy afternoon Or you're watching your children playin' after school They seem to be so unaware of I know I know The things that they soon have to take care

Your Daddy Loves You Gil Scott-Heron

Now sweet lil ol' brown eyed girl, hey, now Now that you're sleepin' I've got a confession to make Of secrets that I've been keepin' Me and your mama had some problems, A whole lotta things on our minds

Your Daddy Loves You (Live) (Bonus Track) Gil Scott-Heron

Now sweet lil ol' brown eyed girl, hey, now Now that you're sleepin' I've got a confession to make Of secrets that I've been keepin' Me and your mama had some problems, A whole lotta things on our minds

Paint It Black Gil Scott-Heron

children with nothing to eat Expose them to life on a ghetto street Tie an old rag around his wife's head And have her pregnant and lying in bed Stuff them all in a Harlem house And then tell them how bad things

When You Are Who You Are Gil Scott-Heron

Girl, the things you wore ain't real You never tell me just how you feel Girl you can be so very beautiful When you are who you are People never seem to want to be themselves So they end up running

Omen Gil Scott-Heron

, And as the eye giant and green, Sort of oozed with no obvious locomotion, Closer and closer until it was like this on my screen, It split and blood flowed down each side of the street, Washing away things

Or Down You Fall Gil Scott-Heron

circle And it keeps on turning Yea, and it keeps on turning You've got to Go away, I can't stand to see your face Cuz you seem the weakest link And now you know I'm only human Instead of all the things

Three Miles Down Gil Scott-Heron

speeches But it occured to me politicians don't understand The thoughts of isolation, ain't no sunshine underground It's like workin' in a graveyard three miles down Damn near a legend as old as the mines Things

Small Talk At 125th And Lenox Gil Scott-Heron

Get high as you can on Saturday night Go to church on Sunday to set things right Listen I seen Miss Blake after Willy yesterday She'd've killed anybody who got in her way Hey look I got a TV for a pound

Is That Jazz? Gil Scott-Heron

Ellington was more than number one For the music and things that he said.

Is That Jazz Gil Scott-Heron

Ellington was more than number one For the music and things that he said.

The New Deal Gil Scott-Heron

It'll be alright, just keep things cool!" "And take the people off the street. We'll settle all this at the conference table. You just leave everything to me."

On Coming from a Broken Home (Pt. 1) Gil Scott-Heron

to live with my grandma down south When my uncles was leaving And my grandfather had just left for heaven They said and as every ologist would certainly note I had no strong male figure right But lily Scott

Stupid Introlude (Feat. Gil Scott-Heron) Bobby Womack

Instead of teaching With the love they give They ask for money In the name of the Lord And they line their pockets keep coming back for more Dragging you down Chipping away Misleading you all with the things

Message To The Messengers Gil Scott-Heron

our generation realize They had to get out there and get busy cause it wasn't gonna be televised We got respect for you rappers and the way they be free-weighin' But if you're gon' be teachin' folks things

Jose Campos Torres Gil Scott-Heron

Maybe in Philadelphia and North Carolina they decided they didn't need no new niggers I had said I wasn't going to write no more poems like this But dogs are in the street It's a turn around world where things

Don't Give Up Gil Scott-Heron

To head off some of the things I might possibly say, And see if they couldn’t take some of my pride away.

Comment #1 Gil Scott-Heron

They seek to hide their relationship with the world's prostitute alienating themselves from everything except dirt and money with long hair, grime, and dope to camo-hide the things that cannot be hidden

Work For Peace Gil Scott-Heron

Spirit Say Work, Work for Peace If you believe the things you say, go to work. If you believe in Peace, time to go to work. Cant be wavin your head no more, go to work.

Bicentennial Blues Gil Scott-Heron

periods of time Halfway justice Halfway liberty Halfway equality It's a half-ass year And we would be silly in all our knowledge In all our self-righteous knowledge When we sit back and laugh and mock the things

Bicentennial Blues (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

periods of time Halfway justice Halfway liberty Halfway equality It's a half-ass year And we would be silly in all our knowledge In all our self-righteous knowledge When we sit back and laugh and mock the things

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron

there will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news and no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb, Francis Scott

Grandma's Hands Gil Scott-Heron

Grandma's hands clapped to church on Sunday mornings Grandma's hands played the tambourine so well Grandma's hands used to issue out a warning She say, Scotty why you run so fast, Might fall on...

Lady Day And John Coltrane Gil Scott-Heron

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've lost your way-- And if you d...

Free Will Gil Scott-Heron

Find a shadow cast by rainbows There you'll meet the sage. Feeding rabbits bits of lettuce or cleaning out the cage He can give you more direction than you've ever known. Show you your bronzed baby...

The Vulture Gil Scott-Heron

Standing in the ruins Of another Black man's life, Or flying through the valley He's separating day and night. I am death, cried the Vulture. For the people of the light. Charon brought his raft Fr...

A Sign Of The Ages Gil Scott-Heron

It's a sign of the ages Markings on my mind Men at the crossroads At odds with an angry scab There can be no salvation There can be no rest Until all old customs Are put to the test The gods are al...

Get Out of the Ghetto Blues Gil Scott-Heron

It's a sign of the ages Markings on my mind Men at the crossroads At odds with an angry scab There can be no salvation There can be no rest Until all old customs Are put to the test The gods are al...

Sign of the Ages Gil Scott-Heron

I know you think you're cool Lord if they bus your kids to school I know you think you're cool Just cause they bus your kids to school But you ain't got a thing to lose You just got the get out of ...

Gun Gil Scott-Heron

Brother man nowadays livin' in the ghettoWhere the dangers sure enough real.Well when he's out late at night,and if he's got his head on right,Well, I lay you 9 to 5 he's walking with steel.Brother...

Brother Gil Scott-Heron

We deal in too many externals, brotherAlways afro's, handshakes and dashikisNever can a man build a working structure for black capitalismAlways does the man read Mao or FanonI think I know you wou...

The Subject Was Faggots Gil Scott-Heron

The subject was faggotsand 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 dotLike that, 34th street and 8th a...

Plastic Pattern People Gil Scott-Heron

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...

Whitey On The Moon Gil Scott-Heron

A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face and arms began to swell. (and Whitey's on the moon) I can't pay no doctor bill. (but Whitey's on the moon) Ten years from now I'll ...

Enough Gil Scott-Heron

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 li...

Everyday Gil Scott-Heron

MmmmmI can't seem to find the words to say (to say)I don't have strength to play the gamesyou need to play (to play)Every day I seem to be running from the truthI ask myself questions but it just a...

Billy Green Is Dead Gil Scott-Heron

The economy is in an uproarThe whole damn countries is in the redTaxi fares are going upYou say, "Billy Green is dead"?The government can't decide on bussin'or at least thats what they saidYea I he...

No Knock Gil Scott-Heron

You explained it to me I must admitBut just for the record you were talkin' shitY'all rap about no knock bein' legislatedFor the people you've always hatedIn this hell hole you, we, call homeNo kno...

Home Is Where The Hatred Is Gil Scott-Heron

A junkie walking through the twilightI'm on my way homeI left three days ago, but no one seems to know I'm goneHome is where the hatred isHome is filled with pain and it,Might not be such a bad ide...

Lady Day & Jihn Coltrane (Original Mix) Gil Scott Heron

Ever feel kinda down and out, you don't know just what to doLivin' all of your days in darkness let the sun shine throughEver feel that somehow, somewhere, you've lost your wayAnd if you don't get ...

Washington D.C. Gil Scott-Heron

Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coastOuthouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moatCitizens of poverty are barely out of sightOverlords escape in the evening with people of the nightMorn...

Winter In America Gil Scott-Heron

"From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrimsAnd to the buffalo who once ruled the plainsLike the vultures circling beneath the dark cloudsLooking for the rainLooking for the rainJust like the cities...