Washington DC-Gil Scott-Heron

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具] [offset:0] [00:29.55]Symbols of democracy pinned up against the coast [00:34.02] [00:35.52]Outhouse of bureaucracy surrounded by a moat [00:43.09]Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight [00:48.12]Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night [00:57.90] [00:58.69]Morning brings the tourists peering eyes and rubber necks [01:06.98]To catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck [01:15.00] [01:17.25]It's a mass of irony for all the world to see [01:22.82] [01:24.14]It's the nation's capital it's Washington D C [01:30.03] [01:46.11]It's the nation's capital [01:50.08] [02:07.80]It's the nation's capital [02:10.41] [02:27.03]It's the nation's capital it's Washington D C [02:29.80] [02:36.82]Mmmm-hmmm [02:36.86] [02:50.42]May not have the glitter or the glamour of L A [03:05.27] [03:06.31]May not have the history or the intrigue of Pompeii [03:17.26]But when it comes to making music and sure enough making news [03:27.15] [03:42.03]People who just don't make sense and people making do [03:48.13] [03:48.73]Seems a ball of contradictions pulling different ways [03:55.06] [03:56.80]Between the folks who come and go and one's who've got to stay [04:08.41] [04:08.96]It's a mass of irony for all the world to see [04:12.83] [04:13.57]It's the nation's capital it's Washington D C [04:17.51]It's the nation's capital [04:20.12] [04:20.89]It's the nation's capital [04:22.53]It's the nation's capital it's Washington D C [04:26.43]Seems to me it's still in light time people knifed up on 14th street [04:34.42] [04:35.62]Makes me feel it's always the right time for them people showing up and coming clean [04:43.07] [04:44.37]Did make the one seem kind of numb [04:49.03]It's the nation's capital [04:52.01]It's the nation's capital [04:54.10]It's the nation's capital it's Washington D C [04:57.55] [05:05.98]Mmmm-hmmm [05:06.09] [05:07.43]Symbols of democracy pinned up against the coast [05:11.31] [05:12.18]Outhouse of bureaucracy surrounded by a moat [05:16.54]Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight [05:20.14] [05:21.09]Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night [05:24.64] [05:25.45]Morning come and bring the tourists craning rubber necks [05:29.10] [05:29.96]Catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck [05:33.43] [05:34.35]It's a mass of irony for all the world to see [05:38.14] [05:38.84]It's the nation's capital it's Washington D C [05:42.70]It's the nation's capital [05:49.70] [05:53.45]It's the nation's capital [05:58.91] [06:02.01]It's the nation's capital it's Washington D C [06:07.67] [06:10.07]It's the nation's capital [06:16.22] [06:19.68]Got you feeling capital [06:25.40] [06:28.85]Punishment is capital in Washington D C