Waiting For The Axe To Fall-Gil Scott-Heron

[ti:Waiting for the Axe to Fall] [ar:Gil Scott-Heron] [al:Real Eyes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.38]Waiting For The Axe To Fall - Gil Scott-Heron (吉尔·斯科特·赛壬) [00:02.84]Written by：Gil Scott-Heron [00:04.18] [00:16.46]Haah [00:16.60] [00:25.01]Brother livin' in a cell [00:26.72] [00:28.95]Doin' time in a County jail now [00:30.75] [00:32.93]You might think his life is hell [00:35.29]But he told me first room [00:37.49]He ever had to himself [00:38.87] [00:41.10]Waitin' for the axe to fall [00:43.32] [00:45.15]Sometimes lord I think that's all [00:47.35] [00:48.75]When you're head is on a block [00:50.54]Ain't no way for it to stop [00:52.28] [00:53.23]You're waitin' for the axe to fall [00:55.40] [01:14.04]Brother served in viet nam and [01:15.78] [01:18.13]Found out no one gives a damn [01:19.77] [01:21.68]See [01:22.23]Agent orange fell on his camp [01:24.46]But everybody went deaf [01:25.82] [01:26.45]Brother turned looking for uncle Sam [01:28.13] [01:30.29]Waiting for the axe to fall [01:32.39] [01:34.44]Sometimes lord I think that's all [01:36.65] [01:38.19]When your head is in the noose [01:39.81]And won't nobody turn you loose [01:42.54]You're waiting for the axe to fall [01:45.17] [02:18.75]Sister on the welfare line [02:20.55] [02:22.82]Examining the threads of her life [02:24.73] [02:26.81]She never thought [02:27.52]She'd be cheatin' and lyin' [02:29.15] [02:30.79]Makin' sure her [02:31.59]And her kids survive [02:32.58] [02:33.20]It's so much better [02:34.25] [02:34.92]Waitin' for the axe to fall [02:37.41] [02:38.91]And sometimes lord I think that's all [02:41.76] [02:42.60]When you're head is on the block [02:44.44]And ain't no way trying to stop [02:46.47] [02:47.00]You're waitin' for the axe to fall [02:49.74] [03:08.10]Last night grandma should got shook [03:09.75] [03:11.97]'Cause someone took her pocketbook [03:13.84] [03:16.15]She ain't safe in the neighborhood [03:17.79] [03:19.89]'Cause too many youngin's up to no good [03:22.10] [03:22.66]They're say can tight [03:23.66] [03:24.18]Waitin' for the axe to fall [03:26.68] [03:27.95]And sometimes lord I think that's all [03:30.80] [03:31.77]When your head is in the noose [03:33.77]And won't nobody turn you loose [03:35.69] [03:36.21]You're waitin' for the axe to fall [03:38.98] [03:39.55]See you like to waitin' [03:41.06] [03:41.67]Feel just like waitin' [03:43.74]See you like to waitin' [03:45.82]Everybody waitin' [03:47.64]See you like to waitin' [03:49.13] [03:49.74]Feel you like to waitin' [03:51.65]See you like to [03:52.60]See you like to [03:53.75]Waitin' and waitin' [03:55.35]And waitin' say [03:56.84]Waitin' for the axe to fall [03:59.27] [04:00.72]And sometimes lord I think that's all [04:03.39] [04:04.16]'Cause when your head is on the block [04:06.23]And ain't no way trying to stop [04:08.20] [04:08.78]You're waitin' for the axe to fall [04:12.13]See you like to waitin' [04:14.20]Everybody waitin' [04:16.15]Never standin' waitin' [04:17.67] [04:18.18]Stand alone in waitin' [04:20.13]See you like to waitin' [04:21.71] [04:22.36]See you like to waitin' [04:24.18]See you like to [04:25.40]See you like to [04:26.38]See you like to [04:27.40]See you like to [04:28.39]I'm hey [04:28.91] [04:29.45]Waitin' for the axe to fall [04:31.71] [04:33.17]And sometimes lord I think that's all [04:35.75] [04:36.61]'Cause when your head is in the noose [04:38.72]And won't nobody turn you loose [04:41.20]You're waitin' for the axe to fall