Wax Tailor, Gil Scott-Heron - Paint It Black lyrics
[Wax Tailor, Gil Scott-Heron - Paint It Black lyrics]
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
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