Gil Scott-Heron - Omen Lyrics

Lyrics Omen - Gil Scott-Heron



We'd like to do a poem that was inspired by
Um, a still life in the subway
Uh, that was a commercial for a movie called
"The Green Slime"
And we call this poem "Omen"
A giant eye zapped across the screen
With tentacle-type, feeler-type thin roots
Reaching for someone, maybe me
With large black block letters
Chiseled into the whites around the pupils screaming
R-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n
Revolution!
And as the eye, giant and green
Sort of oozed with no obvious locomotion
Closer and closer until it was like this on my screen
It split and blood flowed down each side of the street
Washing away things that we didn't need to see
Just like beer cans, peanut shells, and copies of the daily news
And then laying there, bleeding like a stuck pig
Was a stuck pig
Get the point?



Writer(s): Gil Scott Heron


Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters

1 Did You Hear What They Said?
2 Speed Kills
3 Everyday
4 The Middle of Your Day
5 Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?
6 Introduction / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
7 Whitey On the Moon
8 No Knock
9 Small Talk At 125th & Lenox
10 Billy Green Is Dead
11 Sex Education: Ghetto Style
12 ...And Then He Wrote Meditations
13 Plastic Pattern People
14 The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues
15 Ain't No New Thing
16 Brother
17 Evolution (And Flashback)
18 The King Alfred Plan
19 Enough
20 Paint It Black
21 Omen
22 Wiggy
23 Comment #1
24 The Subject Was Faggots
25 Did You Hear What They Said? (Alt take 1)
26 The Middle of Your Day (Alt take 1)
27 Free Will (Alt take 1)
28 The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues (alternate ending)
29 Speed Kills (Alt take 3)
30 The King Alfred Plan (Alt)
31 No Knock (Alt)
32 Wiggy (Alt)
33 Ain't No New Thing (breakdown take)
34 Billy Green Is Dead (Alt)
35 ...And Then He Wrote Meditations (Alt)
36 No Knock (breakdown Alt take)
37 Free Will (Alt take 2)




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