Pieces of a Man-Gil Scott-Heron

[ti:Pieces of a Man] [ar:GilScott-Heron] [al:Storm Music "The Best Of"] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron (吉尔·斯科特·赛壬) [00:17.20]Jagged jigsaw pieces [00:20.32] [00:24.32]Tossed about the room [00:27.63] [00:31.30]I saw my Grandma sweeping [00:34.62] [00:38.55]With her old straw broom [00:41.85] [00:44.79]But she didn't know what she was doing [00:48.97] [00:51.71]She could hardly understand [00:57.29] [01:03.47]That she was really sweeping up [01:06.65] [01:10.77]Pieces of a man [01:14.12] [01:16.99]I saw my Daddy meet the mailman [01:20.73] [01:24.04]And I heard the mailman say [01:27.54] [01:30.91]"Now don't you take this letter to heart now Jimmy [01:35.15] [01:38.27]'Cause they've laid off nine others today" [01:42.90] [01:45.40]But he didn't know what he was saying [01:48.44] [01:52.62]He could hardly understand [01:58.80] [02:03.30]That he was only talking to [02:07.33] [02:11.32]Pieces of a man [02:14.15] [02:17.20]I saw the thunder and heard the lightning [02:21.41] [02:23.97]And felt the burden of his shame [02:28.71] [02:31.20]And for some unknown reason [02:35.39] [02:38.62]He never turned my way [02:41.96] [02:46.51]Pieces of that letter [02:49.35] [02:53.35]Were tossed about that room [02:56.23] [02:59.40]And now I hear the sound of sirens [03:03.52] [03:06.52]Come knifing through the gloom [03:10.68] [03:13.67]But they don't know what they are doing [03:17.46] [03:20.71]They could hardly understand [03:26.16] [03:31.52]That they're only arresting [03:35.82] [03:39.63]Pieces of a man [03:43.19] [03:46.24]I saw him go to pieces [03:49.25] [03:52.93]I saw him go to pieces [03:57.76] [04:00.07]He was always such a good man [04:04.52] [04:07.14]He was always such a strong strong man [04:11.72] [04:13.59]Yeah I saw him go to pieces [04:18.11] [04:20.48]I saw him go to pieces