Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me lyrics

[Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me lyrics]

Yeah the doctors don't know
But New York was killing me
Bunch of doctors coming round
They don't know that New York is killing me
Yeah I need to go home and
Take it slow in Jackson, tennessee

Let me tell ya fast city ain't living all
It's cracked up to be
Fast city living it all
It's cracked up to be
Yes seem I need to go home
And slow down in Jackson, Tennessee
Yes I lay down, I lay down
The doctor: "Try to take it all in"
Yeah lay down, lay down
To try to take it all in (Take it all in)

Yeah you got 8 million people
And I didn't have a single friend
Don't you know, don't you know
New York was killing me
Yes, I was standing nearly dying here
New York was killing me
Seems like I need to start over
And move back home in Jackson, Tennessee

Lord have mercy, mercy on me
Yeah Lord have mercy, have mercy on me
Tell him to bury my body
Back home in Jackson, tennessee
Yeah Lord have mercy, have mercy on me

Yeah I need to be back home
Need to be back home need to be back home
Need to be back home yeah
Born in Chicago but I go home Tennessee
Yeah I born in Chicago but I

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