Lyrics Gil Scott–Heron – Paint It Black
Text:
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 them to life on a ghetto street
Tie an old rag around his wife’s head
And have her pregnant and lying in bed
Stuff them all in a Harlem house
And then tell them how bad things are down South.
Expose them to life on a ghetto street
Tie an old rag around his wife’s head
And have her pregnant and lying in bed
Stuff them all in a Harlem house
And then tell them how bad things are down South.
Album
Gil Scott–Heron – Gil Scott-Heron - Small Talk At 125th And Lenox
Gil Scott–Heron – Everyday
Gil Scott–Heron – Who’ll Pay Reparations On My Soul?
Gil Scott–Heron – Paint It Black
Gil Scott–Heron – Enough
Gil Scott–Heron – The Vulture
Gil Scott–Heron – Whitey On The Moon
Gil Scott–Heron – Plastic Pattern People
Gil Scott–Heron – Evolution (And Flashback)
Gil Scott–Heron – The Subject Was Faggots
Gil Scott–Heron – Small Talk At 125th And Lenox
Gil Scott–Heron – Brother
Gil Scott–Heron – Omen
Gil Scott–Heron – Introduction – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised