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

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

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

You have understood The riddles of the ages Yes and you have understood The universal nine You have placed your footprints on The everlasting sands of time Yes so tell me why Can't you understand that

Winter In America Gil Scott-Heron

in America Yes and all of the healers have been killed Or sent away, yeah But the people know, the people know It's winter Winter in America And ain't nobody fighting 'Cause nobody knows what to save

Winter In America (Live) (Bonus Track) Gil Scott-Heron

"From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Looking for the rain Just like the

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

"From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Looking for the rain Just like the

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

"From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds Looking for the rain Looking for the rain Just like the

The Subject Was Faggots Gil Scott-Heron

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

Message To The Messengers Gil Scott-Heron

The first sign is peace, tell all them gun totin' young brothas That the man is glad to see us out there killin' one another We raised too much hell when they was shootin' us down So they started poisoning

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.

Washington D.C. Gil Scott-Heron

Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night Morning

The Crutch Gil Scott-Heron

His eyes half closed revealed his world of nod A world of lonely men and no love, no god His life of seeming nonchalance can't hide The pain and fear that in his mind reside From dawn til dawn his body

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

middle of a mountain Well, I'm reaching out from within And all I can think of are chapters and scenes of all of the places we've been I'm not such an old man so don't get me wrong I'm the latest survivor

Your Soul and Mine Gil Scott-Heron

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

Jose Campos Torres Gil Scott-Heron

of that recognition Has not removed the certainty of that knowledge -- how could it The dogs rabid foaming with the energy of their brutish ignorance Stride the city streets like robot gunslingers And

H2O Gate Blues Gil Scott-Heron

and they never mention the economics of war.

Bicentennial Blues Gil Scott-Heron

of the white man The blues grew up in the blues singing of Bessie and Billie and Ma The blues grew up in Satchmo's horn, on Duke's piano and Langston's poetry, on Robeson's baritone The point is That the

Bicentennial Blues (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

of the white man The blues grew up in the blues singing of Bessie and Billie and Ma The blues grew up in Satchmo's horn, on Duke's piano and Langston's poetry, on Robeson's baritone The point is That the

Work For Peace Gil Scott-Heron

Back when Eisenhower was the President, Golf courses was where most of his time was spent.

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

Or Down You Fall Gil Scott-Heron

I sail alone in my paper ship The seat is made of fire I ride my horse of nuts and bolts We're made to never tire The world is just a simple circle I've got to keep on turning Yea, I've got to keep

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron

pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog moss confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary The revolution will not be televised The

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

B Movie Gil Scott-Heron

Because it seems as though we've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters, not even 26% of the American people, but 26% of the registered voters form a mandate or a landslide. 21% voted for Skippy

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

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.

The New Deal Gil Scott-Heron

I've been billed for the bill of rights And been treated like I was wrong. I have become a special amendment For what included me all along. Like "All men are created equal."

Plastic Pattern People Gil Scott-Heron

You may be plastic because you never meditate, about the bottom of glasses, The third side of your universe. Add on Alice Coltrane and her cosmic strains. Still no vocal on blue black horizons.

Three Miles Down Gil Scott-Heron

Here come the mine cars and it's damn near dawn Another shift of men, some of them 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

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

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.

Comment #1 Gil Scott-Heron

Harlem as the Rainbow Conspiracy a combination of the Students For A Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, and the Young Lords and this is my particular comment about that conspiracy, Comment #1.

On Coming from a Broken Home (Pt. 2) Gil Scott-Heron

And so my life has been guided All the love I needed was provided And through my mothers sacrifices I saw where her life went To give more than birth to me, but life to me And this ain't one of the cliches

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

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

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.

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.

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

Gun Gil Scott-Heron

Brother man nowadays livin' in the ghetto Where 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.

Spirits Past Gil Scott-Heron

It's getting to be the time of year When people once spoke of love and good cheer Peace on Earth and good will to all men And we all believed that there'd come a day When peace would be much more than

Small Talk At 125th And Lenox Gil Scott-Heron

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

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

Blue Collar Gil Scott-Heron

I been down in Pennsylvania Where I was working in the mine And I been down in Cincinnati They laid me off the assembly line Yeah, they got me looking everywhere But I ain't too proud of what I found And

The Bottle Gil Scott-Heron

He done quit his 9 to 5 he drink full time so now he's livin' in the bottle.

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

I want to make this a special 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

The Other Side Gil Scott-Heron

other side Yeah, the opposite of new is old The opposite of young is old Seems like everything has got another side Yeah, but young ones want to be old ones Old ones know what they would do if they was

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 don't