Pieces Of A Man-Gil Scott-Heron

[ti:Pieces Of A Man] [ar:GilScott-Heron] [al:Pieces of a Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Pieces Of A Man - Gil Scott-Heron (吉尔·斯科特·赛壬) [00:00.02]Written by：Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson [00:00.04] [00:16.90]Jagged jigsaw pieces [00:19.84] [00:23.99]Tossed about the room [00:27.10] [00:30.87]I saw my grandma sweeping [00:33.68] [00:38.10]With her old straw broom [00:40.92] [00:44.07]But she didn't know what she was doing [00:47.21] [00:51.13]She could hardly understand [00:56.56] [01:02.70]That she was really sweeping up [01:05.42] [01:09.98]Pieces of a man [01:13.09] [01:16.03]I saw my daddy meet the mailman [01:19.30] [01:22.93]And I heard the mailman say [01:26.44] [01:29.92]Now don't you take this letter to heart now Jimmy [01:33.73] [01:37.00]Cause they've laid off nine others today [01:41.02] [01:43.79]But he didn't know what he was saying [01:46.84] [01:51.31]He could hardly understand [01:57.41] [02:01.95]That he was only talking to [02:05.13] [02:09.92]Pieces of a man [02:12.41] [02:15.64]I saw the thunder and heard the lightning [02:19.63] [02:22.32]And felt the burden of his shame [02:26.99] [02:29.36]And for some unknown reason [02:32.50] [02:36.67]He never turned my way [02:40.00] [02:44.74]Pieces of that letter [02:47.10] [02:51.50]Were tossed about that room [02:53.92] [02:57.43]And now I hear the sound of sirens [03:01.53] [03:04.50]Come knifing through the gloom [03:08.58] [03:11.29]But they don't know what they are doing [03:15.30] [03:18.58]They could hardly understand [03:23.78] [03:29.19]That they're only arresting [03:32.97] [03:37.26]Pieces of a man [03:39.80] [03:43.76]I saw him go to pieces [03:46.66] [03:50.45]I saw him go to pieces [03:54.86] [03:57.51]He was always such a good man [04:00.61] [04:04.44]He was always such a strong strong man [04:08.09] [04:10.92]Yeah I saw him go to pieces [04:15.31] [04:17.75]I saw him go to pieces