Gil Scott-Heron - Omen lyrics
[Gil Scott-Heron - Omen lyrics]
We'd like to do a poem
That was inspired by a still
Life in the subway
That was a commercial for a
Movie called "The Green Slime"
And we call this poem 'Omen'
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 v o l u t i o n revolution
And as the eye, giant and green
Sort of oozed with no obvious locomotion
Closer and closer
Until it was like this on my screen
It split and blood flowed down
Each side of the street
Washing away things that we
Didn't need to see just like beer cans
Peanut shells and copies of the daily news
And then, laying there
Bleeding like a stuck pig was a stuck pig
Get the point?
That was inspired by a still
Life in the subway
That was a commercial for a
Movie called "The Green Slime"
And we call this poem 'Omen'
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 v o l u t i o n revolution
And as the eye, giant and green
Sort of oozed with no obvious locomotion
Closer and closer
Until it was like this on my screen
It split and blood flowed down
Each side of the street
Washing away things that we
Didn't need to see just like beer cans
Peanut shells and copies of the daily news
And then, laying there
Bleeding like a stuck pig was a stuck pig
Get the point?