Lyrics Intro to Washington DC (Live 1983) - Gil Scott-Heron

Uh, recently, recently at the Lon-, at the London film festival, uh
A film appeared for the first time, it was called, "Black Wax"
And it featured the group here and said numbers of our organisation
And one of the songs that we did on, on, on, on, in the movie
As also we did it on movie talking was a song called Washington DC
I feel as though
Feel as though, Washington has been broadly misunderstood
'Cause ordinarily on the news, in the evening they say
"Live from Washington DC" and then they bring you some dead son of a bitch
Who ain't even from there
Talking about something that ain't nobody listening to, to people who could care less
We represent a signal aspect of Washington DC because most of us are
Are living in Washington now
And we wanna tell everybody that what them heard about Washington DC is not necessarily so
That eighty percent of the people in Chocolate city
Are people who feel
Differently than the folks who seem to represent them
When you see about news clippings and news articles from there
We would like to take you into an idea about the notions capital
The song is called, "Washington DC"