Genius Lyrics
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Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is a rhythmic jam that served as an unapologetic wake-up call to anyone, especially African Americans, who thought they could gain their
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Willing
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[Verse 1] / We’ve all heard so many conflicting words / About life, whether wrong or right / Of how you gotta be working hard / And it ain’t no easy job / To survive, just keeping
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – It's Your World
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / The ground beneath my feet / I know was made for me / There is no any one place where I belong / My spirit’s meant to be free / And soon now everyone
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Angola, Louisiana
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After receiving a letter from the mother of Gary Tyler, a man who has been wrongly imprisoned in the Louisiana State Penitentiary since 1975, Gil Scott-Heron wrote “Angola
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Gil Scott-Heron – The Prisoner
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / Here I am, after so many years / Hounded by hatred and trapped by fear / I'm in a box. I've got no place to go / If I follow my mind, I know I'll
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Gil Scott-Heron – "B" Movie
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Well, the first thing I want to say is..."Mandate My Ass!" / Because it seems as though we've been convinced / That 26% of the registered voters / Not even 26% of the American
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Gil Scott-Heron – Re-Ron
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Ah yes, they're off and running again. The campaign trail / And doesn't he look like himself? / Back in the saddle again / Roy Rogers and Buck Rogers / Rutherford B. Hayes and
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Johannesburg
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[Chorus 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / Hey! / Said what’s the word? / Tell me, brother, have you heard? / From Johannesburg? / Tell me, what’s the word now? / Sister, woman, have you heard
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Angel Dust
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This is a song about the damning effects of angel dust (PCP) on it’s abusers and their loved ones. It was recently sampled by Game on LAX’s “Angel.”
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – South Carolina (Barnwell)
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “South Carolina (Barnwell)” / [Vocals/Written By/Producer: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Producer/Keyboards/Vocals: Brian Jackson] / [Producer: The Midnight
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Gil Scott-Heron – Free Will
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[Intro] / Ha ha, I do with you man please Lord / (Hands up nigga) / One two a one two / [Verse 1] / Find the shadows cast by rainbows / There you’ll meet the sage / Feeding rabbits
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Winter in America
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims / And to the buffalos who once ruled the plain / Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds
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Gil Scott-Heron – No Knock
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[Intro] / Um, we want to do a poem for one of our unfavorite people, um, who’s now the head of the, uh, Nixon campaign. He was formerly the Attorney General named John Mitchell
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Shut 'Um Down
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Did you feel that rumble? Did you hear that sound? / Well it wasn't no earthquake, but it shook the ground / It made me think about power, like it or not: / Gotta work for earth
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Gil Scott-Heron – The Crutch
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Feb 8, 2010 ... The Crutch Lyrics: His eyes half closed revealed his world of nod / A world of lonely men and no love, no god / His life of seeming ...
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Gil Scott-Heron – Whitey on the Moon
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In this Gil Scott-Heron piece about the first moon landing, the poet expresses his unhappiness at having his taxes dedicated to bringing ‘whitey’ to the moon while he, and all
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Gil Scott-Heron – Gun
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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
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – We Almost Lost Detroit
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“We Almost Lost Detroit” recalls the near -disaster of the partial meltdown of the Fermi 1 nuclear reactor near Detroit, Michigan.
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Madison Avenue
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In “Madison Avenue,” Gil Scott-Heron portrays the world of American consumerism through by representing it with the ideal “Madison Avenue,” where everything is as luxurious as it
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Gil Scott-Heron – Speed Kills
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson] / Speed on by / Don't seem to have the time / What about this life? / What about this life / Can I call mine? / [Verse 2: Gil Scott-
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Better Days Ahead
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[Verse 1: 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
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Gil Scott-Heron – Home Is Where the Hatred Is (Pieces of a Man Version)
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Home Is Where the Hatred Is" is taken from the 1971 album “Pieces of a Man”. It is a melodic, somber composition of the narrator’s dangerous and hopeless environment, presumably of
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Bicentennial Blues
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “Bicentennial Blues” / [Vocals/Written By: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Intro: Gil Scott-Heron] / We have assigned ourselves the task of defining certain
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Gil Scott-Heron – Black History / The World
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I was wondering about our yesterdays / And starting digging through the rubble / And to say, at least somebody went / Through a hell of a lot of trouble / To make sure that when we
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Gil Scott-Heron – Work for Peace
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Back when Eisenhower was the President / Golf courses was where most of his time was spent / So I never really listened to what the President said / Because in general I believed
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Guerilla
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / I believe that we gon’ be free in my lifetime / Standing tall on a mountain somewhere—don’t care—letting our light shine / I said that I believe that
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Gil Scott-Heron – My Cloud
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And when the morning comes / If there's been no rest for you / We've been friends long enough / You should know what to do / If that's how you started your day / Why keep running
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – A Lovely Day
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “A Lovely Day” / [Vocals/Written By/Producer: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Producer/Keyboards/Vocals: Brian Jackson] / [Producer: The Midnight Band] / [
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Three Miles Down
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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
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Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man
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In order to make sense of what Gil Scott-Heron means by “pieces of a man”, we should briefly address some of the historical racial and socioeconomic dimensions of the metaphor.
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Push Comes To Shove
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[Intro] / Push comes to shove, you’ll find exactly what you’re made of / [Verse 1] / Can’t nobody shame you / Can’t nobody scold you / Can’t nobody blame you / And make you feel
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – H2Ogate Blues
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[Intro: Gil Scott-Heron] / Aheh. You don't wanna be involved in this one, huh? / This here, this is, this is gonna be a blues number / But, first, I wanna do a little bit of
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Under the Hammer
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / Good advice is sure 'nough hard to come by / And bad advice surrounds you constantly / And good advice you just can't put no price on / And bad advice
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Cane
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[Intro: Gil Scott-Heron] / The Rural South, as described by Jean Toomer at the turn of the century, was the inspiration for this song about two of its characters. This is about the
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Gil Scott-Heron – I'm New Here
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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
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Gil Scott-Heron – Message To The Messengers
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Message To The Messengers was a record dedicated to the rappers of the time and rap music in general. Gil-Scott is regarded as the “Godfather of Rap” and his influence can be seen
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Fell Together
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “Fell Together” / [Vocals/Written By/Producer: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Producer/Keyboards/Vocals/Written By: Brian Jackson] / [Producer: The Midnight
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – New York City
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - “New York City” / [Vocals/Lyrics By/Music By: Gil Scott-Heron] / [Piano/Electric Piano/Vocals: Brian Jackson] / [Vocals: Victor Brown] / [Co-
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Show Bizness
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / Well, they’ll guide your career for only ninety-five percent / Well, that leaves enough for fronts like three-piece suits and pays the rent / Sing the
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – The Bottle (Winter in America Version)
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“The Bottle” by Gil Scott-Heron is based upon his conversations with alcoholics outside a liquor store in Northern Virginia, near Washington D.C. “The Bottle” aims to capture the
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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Rivers of My Fathers
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Looking for a way / Out of this confusion / I'm looking for a sign / Carry me home / Let me lay down by a stream / And let me be miles from everything / Rivers of my Fathers
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Gil Scott-Heron – Save the Children
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / If you're driving through the country on a lazy afternoon / Or you're watching your children playing after school / They seem to be so unaware of... I
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Gil Scott-Heron – Jose Campos Torres
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From the inside liner notes of The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron:
This poem was originally composed in the Spring of 1978, after the death of Brother Jose Campos Torres at the hands of
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Gil Scott-Heron – A Sign of the Ages
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[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron] / It's a sign of the ages, markings on my mind / Man at the crossroads at odds with an angry sky / There can be no salvation, there can be no rest
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Gil Scott-Heron – The Middle of Your Day
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[Verse 1] / Over the hill you see / The middle of your day / And the sun says “It’s time / For you to go your way” / Go and tell your momma / That you now know what to do / Her
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Gil Scott-Heron – Blue Collar
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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
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