Gil Scott-Heron

This is called “Sex Education: Ghetto Style”
 I was doing it when I was a colored boy
 Of eight or nine or ten
 I had never heard of Sigmund Freud
 Bu...

What we want to discuss here
are routes out of the ghetto.
This is called
the Get Out of the Ghetto blues.

I know you think you're cool--

LORD, if t...

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 goneHome is where the hatred is, home is f...

You always go out of your way to impress me
Don't you know by now, ain't no need to impress me
I'm impressed every time you smile
When I feel like you...

I'm gonna take myself a piece of sunshine
And paint it all over my sky
Be no rain, be no rain
I'm gonna take the song from every bird
And make 'em sin...

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 slaughter m...

Blow wind blow
Futher than a thousand wires.
Blow wind blow
Blow wind blow
Fanner of a thousand fires.
Can't you see that every place you go
Won't you...

We have something to offer you
We have music to offer you
Seasons my change
And feelings may change
But music remains
Seasons may change
And feelings ...

Must be somethin'
Must be somethin' we can do
Must be somethin'
Must be somethin' we can do
We didn't come all this way just to give up
We didn't stru...

Peace go with you, brother
Though I ain't so proud anymore
Peace go with you, brother
Recognition don't come cheap anymore
You're my lawyer, you're my...

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...

See that black boy over there runnin' scared
 His old man in a bottle
 He done quit his 9 to 5
 He drink full time and now he's livin' in a bottle
 Se...

I know a young warrior named Bobby Smith
He's gonna be 4 years old on his next birthday
He happened to be with Brian
And I when we wrote this song
We ...

Time is right up on us now，brother
Don't make no sense for us to be arguing now
All of your children and all of my children
Are gonna have pay for our...

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
 You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
 Skip out for beer during commercials,
 Because the rev...

You always go out of your way to impress me
Don't you know by now, ain't no need to impress me
I'm impressed every time you smile
When I feel like you...

It's a sign  of the ages
Markings on my mind
A  Man  at the crossroads
At odds with an angry sky
There can be no salvation
There can be no rest
Until ...

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 ...

Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast
Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat
Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight
Morning br...

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 loo...

Heard me a story about this brother
Heard he was more than a hundred years old
Beat up and robbed by friends of his, or so he thought
Which proves thi...

Early this morning
When you knocked upon my door
Early this morning
When you knocked upon my door
And I say: hello Satan
I believe, it's time to go
Me...

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 ...

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 b...

See that black boy over there, runnin' scared
his ol' man's in a bottle.
He done quit his 9 to 5 he drink full time
so now he's livin' in the bottle.
...

See that black boy over there, runnin' scared
his ol' man's in a bottle.
He done quit his 9 to 5 he drink full time
so now he's livin' in the bottle.
...

New York Is Killing Me -Gil Scott-Heron
Written by ：Gil Scott Heron
Yeah the doctors don't know
But New York was killing me
Bunch of doctors coming ro...

I'm gonna take myself a piece of sunshine
And paint it all over my sky
Be no rain, be no rain
I'm gonna take the song from every bird
And make 'em sin...

The sweet smell of my lady's loveher body blending with my own.
And still a softer morning in 
Marcha gift for mefrom 
God with a darling faceand papa...

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 goneHome is where the hatred is, home is f...

Well, the first thing I want to say isMandate my ass!
 
But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the year from Shogun to Reaga...