Work For Peace Gil Scott-Heron

We've got to work for Peace, Peace ain't coming this way. If we only work for Peace, If everyone believed in Peace the way they say they do, we'd have Peace.

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.

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

A Sign Of The Ages Gil Scott-Heron

there ain't no world of your own And you know that no one will ever miss you, yeah yeah yeah When you're finally gone So you cry like a baby, a baby Or you go out and get high But there ain't no peace

Get Out of the Ghetto Blues Gil Scott-Heron

there ain't no world of your own And you know that no one will ever miss you, yeah yeah yeah When you're finally gone So you cry like a baby, a baby Or you go out and get high But there ain't no peace

Message To The Messengers Gil Scott-Heron

time ago We was talkin' about television and doin' it on the radio What we did was to help our generation realize They had to get out there and get busy cause it wasn't gonna be televised We got respect for

Winter In America 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 cities

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

Blue Collar Gil Scott-Heron

Kansas City Where even the blues sell by the pound And I been down in New York City, brother And that ain't no place to be down Yeah, I'm a-looking at the face of the children You see, we're looking for

Three Miles Down Gil Scott-Heron

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 that happen in the pits just don't change with the times Work

Bicentennial Blues Gil Scott-Heron

Kissinger The international godfather of peace A piece of Vietnam A piece of Laos A piece of Angola A piece of Cuba A blues quartet And America got the blues The point is that it may get by you For another

Bicentennial Blues (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

Kissinger The international godfather of peace A piece of Vietnam A piece of Laos A piece of Angola A piece of Cuba A blues quartet And America got the blues The point is that it may get by you For another

Enough Gil Scott-Heron

that was not enough. somehow i can not believe that it would be enough for me to melt with you and integrate without the thoughts of rape and murder. i cannot conceive of peace on earth until i have given

B Movie Gil Scott-Heron

and 3, 4% voted for somebody else who might have been running.

Everyday Gil Scott-Heron

wrong from right I don't seem to know day from night It's no wonder that the whole world uptight They're just loving and living, lying and losing Every day (Yeah, every day) Stop on the way home From work

Running Gil Scott-Heron

to run Easier than staying and finding out you're the only onewho didn't run Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described As in the long run Or as in having given someone a run for

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

The Vulture Gil Scott-Heron

For the people of the light. Charon brought his raft From the sea that sails on souls, And saw the scavenger departing, Taking warm hearts to the cold.

Jose Campos Torres Gil Scott-Heron

quickly turned around It was turned around so that right looked wrong It was turned around so that up looked down It was turned around so that those who marched in the streets with bibles and signs of peace

Better Days Ahead Gil Scott-Heron

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 For

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

Grandma's Hands Gil Scott-Heron

What you want to whip him for? He didn't throw no apple core. Grandma's hands, they keep on calling to me.

The New Deal Gil Scott-Heron

I have believed in my convictions And have been convicted for my beliefs Conned by the constitution And harassed by the police.

Plastic Pattern People Gil Scott-Heron

We come now, frantically searching for Thomas Moore, rainbow villages. Up on suddenly, Charlie Mingus and our man Abdul Malik, to add bass, to a bottomless pit of insecurity.

Washington D.C. Gil Scott-Heron

Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night Morning brings the tourists, peering eyes and rubber necks To catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck It's a mass of irony for

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

Brother Gil Scott-Heron

We deal in too many externals, brother Always afro's, handshakes and dashikis Never can a man build a working structure for black capitalism Always does the man read Mao or Fanon I think I know you would-be

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

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron

You will not be able to stay home brother you will not be able to plug in, turn on and drop out you will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip skip out for beer during commercials Because the

Back Home (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

to me Gave me piggy back rides down them dusty highways When I came just up to his knees I got to get back and see my people Someday and someway I never thought I'd be lost and start searching for

Give Her A Call Gil Scott-Heron

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 life I think I'm gonna give her a call She's been waiting patiently For

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

Don't Give Up Gil Scott-Heron

There are people whose lives are so far of the track That what they like best about life is stabbing’ brothers in the back And I was obviously too blind and probably too weak To see who was responsible for

Gun Gil Scott-Heron

Brother Man says he's 'fraid of gangsters Messing with people just for fun He don't want to be next. He got a family to protect. So just last week he bought himself a gun.

I'll Take Care of You Gil Scott-Heron

loved and I lost the same as you So you see I know just what you've been through And if you let me, here's what I'll do I'll take care of you You won't ever have to worry You won't ever have to whine For

Comment #1 Gil Scott-Heron

is the one we decided to use here this evening because it makes a comment if you listen closely on what is now being advertised in East Harlem as the Rainbow Conspiracy a combination of the Students For

Whitey On The Moon Gil Scott-Heron

(but Whitey's on the moon) Was all that money I made las' year (for Whitey on the moon?) How come there ain't no money here? (Hm!

Pieces Of A Man Gil Scott-Heron

nine others today He didn't know what he was saying He could hardly understand That he was only talking to Pieces of a man I saw the thunder and heard the lightning And felt the burden of his shame And for

H2O Gate Blues Gil Scott-Heron

For example, there is... The "I ain't got me no money, blues". There is the "I ain't got me no woman, blues".

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

stationed overseas Or lost in battles or broken Unless the homes of firemen, policemen, construction workers seamen, railroad men, truckers, pilots Who lost their lives but not what their lives stood for

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 Bottle Gil Scott-Heron

See that black boy over there, runnin' scared his ol' man got a problem and it's a bad one Pawned off damn near everything, his ol' woman's weddin' ring for a bottle.

The Bottle (With Brian Jackson) Gil Scott-Heron

See that black boy over there, runnin' scared his ol' man got a problem and it's a bad one Pawned off damn near everything, his ol' woman's weddin' ring for a bottle.

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

addition, women folk raised me In addition, I was full grown before I knew I came from a broken home Sent to live with my grandma down south When my uncles was leaving And my grandfather had just left for

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

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...

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 ca...