Ain't No Such Thing As Superman (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

such thing as a superman?

Home Is Where The Hatred Is (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

"A junkie walking through the twilight I'm on my way home I left three days ago, but no one seems to know I'm gone Home is where the hatred is Home is filled with pain and it, Might not be such a

Bicentennial Blues (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

snapped its fingers and tapped its feet right along with the blues folks But, the blues has always been totally American As American as apple pie As American as the blues As American as apple pie The

Back Home (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

"There's been a whole lot said about your city living They told us that the streets were paved with gold And some of us believed 'em, left our home and came looking But that was just another story they

The Bottle (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

Preacherman tried to help her out, she cussed him out and hit him in the head with a bottle. And don't you think it's a crime when time after time, people in the bottle.

Winter In America (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

people know It's winter Winter in America And ain't nobody fighting 'Cause nobody knows what to save Save your soul, Lord knows From Winter in America The Constitution A noble piece of paper With

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

of I know I know The things that they soon have to take care of We got to do something yeah to save the children Soon it will be their test to try and save the world Right now they seem to play such

Winter In America (With Brian Jackson) (Solo Ver.) (Bonus Track) Gil Scott-Heron

people know It's winter Winter in America And ain't nobody fighting 'Cause nobody knows what to save Save your soul, Lord knows From Winter in America The Constitution A noble piece of paper With

Running Gil Scott-Heron

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

Home Is Where The Hatred Is Gil Scott-Heron

A junkie walking through the twilight I'm on my way home I left three days ago, but no one seems to know I'm gone Home is where the hatred is Home is filled with pain and it, Might not be such a bad idea

Home Is Where The Hatred Is Gil Scott Heron

A junkie walking through the twilight I'm on my way home I left three days ago, but no one seems to know I'm gone Home is where the hatred is Home is filled with pain and it Might not be such a bad idea

Omen Gil Scott-Heron

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

H2O Gate Blues Gil Scott-Heron

And if you take these 3,000 and divide them by 6, you come up with 500. Meaning that there are at least 500 shades of The Blues. For example, there is... The "I ain't got me no money, blues".

New York Is Killing Me Gil Scott-Heron

Yeah the doctors don't know, but New York was killing me Bunch of doctors coming round, they don't know That New York is killing me Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee Let me

B Movie Gil Scott-Heron

Well, the first thing I want to say isMandate my ass!

Everyday Gil Scott-Heron

can't seem to find the words to say (to say) I don't have strength to play the games you need to play (to play) Every day I seem to be running from the truth I ask myself questions but it just ain't no

Whitey On The Moon Gil Scott-Heron

(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 be payin' still.

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

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

Pieces Of A Man Gil Scott-Heron

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

95 South (All of the Places We've Been) Gil Scott-Heron

In my lifetime I've been in towns where there was no freedom or future around I've been in places where you could not eat or take a drink of water where ever you pleased And now that I meet you in the

Three Miles Down Gil Scott-Heron

to imagine workin' in the mines Coal dust in your lungs, on your skin and on your mind I've listened to the speeches But it occured to me politicians don't understand The thoughts of isolation, ain't no

Better Days Ahead Gil Scott-Heron

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 For better days ahead With

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

Spirits Past Gil Scott-Heron

confided in me And i don't think that everybody can wait 'til then It makes me sad that my kids won't see Christmas the way it used to be I was so excited though we didn't have a dime But that seems like such

Message To The Messengers Gil Scott-Heron

teachin' folks things, make sure you know what you're sayin' Older folks in our neighborhood got plenty of know-how Remember if it wasn't for them, you wouldn't be out here now And I ain't comin' at you with

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

tribute To a family that contradicts the concepts Heard the rules but wouldn't accept In addition, women folk raised me In addition, I was full grown before I knew I came from a broken home Sent to live with

Work For Peace Gil Scott-Heron

Americans no longer fight to keep their shores safe, Just to keep the jobs going in the arms making workplace.

Gun Gil Scott-Heron

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.

Paint It Black Gil Scott-Heron

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

I'll Take Care of You Gil Scott-Heron

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 I lost the same as you So you see I know just

Bicentennial Blues Gil Scott-Heron

snapped its fingers and tapped its feet right along with the blues folks But, the blues has always been totally American As American as apple pie As American as the blues As American as apple pie The

Don't Give Up Gil Scott-Heron

Ahh lovely day…… I never really thought of myself as a complex man, Or as someone who was really that hard to understand.

Jose Campos Torres Gil Scott-Heron

I had said I wasn't going to write no more poems like this I had confessed to myself all along, tracer of life, poetry trends That awareness, consciousness, poems that screamed of pain and the origins

The Subject Was Faggots Gil Scott-Heron

, balling, ball-less faggots cutie cootie and snoodie faggots I mean you just had to dig it to dig it the crowning attraction being the arrival of Ms Brooklyn looking like a half-back in a mini-skirt with

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 like strips

The New Deal Gil Scott-Heron

(No amendment needed here) I've contributed in every field including cotton From Sunset Strip to Washington Square. Back during the non-violent era. I was the only non-violent one.

Comment #1 Gil Scott-Heron

Us living as we do upside down. And the new word to have is revolution. People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel because God's whole card has been thoroughly piqued.

I'm New Here Gil Scott-Heron

I did not become someone different That 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 Told her I was

Is That Jazz? Gil Scott-Heron

Playing and singing as long as its bringing A message is all that it says. What is has will surely last but is that Jazz?

Is That Jazz Gil Scott-Heron

Playing and singing as long as its bringing A message is all that it says. What is has will surely last but is that Jazz?

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 Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron

pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay There will be no pictures of young being run out of Harlem a rail with a brand new process There will be no slow motion or still life

The Other Side Gil Scott-Heron

Sometimes I feel like I'm just wasting time Looking for another side Sometime I feel like I'm losing my mind 'cause there ain't No other side Sometimes I'm just spinning my wheels, ain't no big deal Morning

Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams) Gil Scott-Heron

Midnight near the border trying to cross the Rio Grande Runnin' with coyotes to where the streets are paved with gold You're diving underwater when you hear the helicopters Knowing it's all been less than

Save The Children Gil Scott-Heron

unaware of I know I know The things that they soon have to take care of We got to do something yeah to save the children Soon it will be their test to try and save the world Right now they seem to play such

Plastic Pattern People Gil Scott-Heron

Still no vocal on blue black horizons. Your plasticity is tested by a formless assault. The sun can answer questions in tune, to all your sacrifices.

Free Will Gil Scott-Heron

You're waving as soft clouds go by, But Peace won't be still of its own free will. Say you want to go exploring, you got to find some truth.

No Knock Gil Scott-Heron

You explained it to me I must admit But just for the record you were talkin' shit Y'all rap about no knock bein' legislated For the people you've always hated In this hell hole you, we, call home No knock

Give Her A Call Gil Scott-Heron

My life is one of movement I been running as fast as I can I've inherited trial and error directly from my old man But I'm committed to the consequences Whether I stand or fall And when I get back to my