所属专辑:This is Madness
歌手: The Last Poets
时长: 03:04
Bird lives[00:00:00]
The brother wrote on the rotted pasteboard wall[00:00:07]
Next to the sign that read[00:00:10]
Please don't pee in our hall[00:00:12]
And then he reached in his slide[00:00:15]
And pulled out the tiny transparent bag[00:00:17]
The one filled with the chalk white powder the junkies call scag[00:00:20]
Hi sighed as he hit the big vein in his arm[00:00:25]
And his mind took off on bird's musical charm[00:00:29]
Now brother bird was blowing embraceable you[00:00:34]
Like only he was hip to the secret he knew[00:00:37]
Wow the brother said as he slipped off into a nod[00:00:40]
Bird sure eases the pain[00:00:44]
Now I wanna hear brother john coltrane[00:00:46]
He tried to get up[00:00:50]
But his body wouldn't move[00:00:52]
His mind told him his senses were in a groove[00:00:54]
Finally bird was through[00:00:58]
And 'trane took over in a spiritual debut[00:01:00]
His heart began to pound[00:01:03]
As he dug the boss sound[00:01:05]
Damn bird and 'trane sure enough was down[00:01:07]
And then he looked up and saw[00:01:10]
That the box wasn't even on[00:01:12]
And it was damn near dawn[00:01:14]
I'm high[00:01:17]
I'm blind[00:01:28]
I'm wasted[00:01:36]
If I could only come down[00:01:42]
There I go there I go there I go[00:01:44]
There I go there I go there I go[00:01:46]
There I go there I go there I go[00:01:47]
There I go there I go there I go[00:01:49]
There I go there I go there I go[00:01:50]
There I go there I go there I go[00:01:52]
There I go[00:01:54]
Shit give me some dough[00:01:55]
So I can buy me some smack[00:01:57]
And get back on the fast track[00:01:59]
He supped off into a nod[00:02:02]
And the sounds became odd[00:02:04]
And he could no longer hear trane or bird[00:02:05]
He could only hear the loud unspoken word[00:02:08]
Get back nigger you're black[00:02:11]
No but I'm beautiful he said[00:02:13]
And then he suddenly realized that he was dead[00:02:16]
And he was being lowered into the ground[00:02:19]
And couldn't utter a single sound[00:02:22]
And his family and friends were standing around[00:02:24]
With their heads hanging down[00:02:27]
Crying and carrying on[00:02:30]
Cause their beautiful black son was gone[00:02:32]
No I'm not dead his mind said[00:02:35]
Don't bury me[00:02:38]
Cause I didn't[00:02:40]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:41]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:43]
I didn'ti didn't I didn't[00:02:45]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:46]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:47]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:48]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:49]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:50]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:51]
I didn't I didn't I didn't[00:02:52]
And then he realized[00:02:54]
O.D.[00:02:56]
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O.D.[00:03:02]