Lyrics Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul? - Gil Scott-Heron
Speed
of
light
Who'll
pay
reparations
on
my
soul?
Many
suggestions
And
documents
written
Many
directions
For
the
end
that
was
given
They
gave
us
Pieces
of
silver
and
pieces
of
gold
Tell
me
Who'll
pay
reparations
on
my
soul?
Many
fine
speeches
(oh
yeah)
From
the
White
House
desk
(uh
huh)
Written
on
the
cue
cards
That
were
never
really
there.
Yes
But
the
heat
and
the
summer
were
there
And
the
freezing
winter's
cold.
Now
Tell
me
Who'll
pay
reparations
on
my
soul?
Call
my
brother
a
junkie
'cause
he
ain't
got
no
job
(no
job,
no
job)
Told
my
old
man
to
leave
me
when
times
got
hard
(so
hard)
Told
my
mother
she
got
to
carry
me
all
by
herself
And
now
that
I
want
to
be
a
man
(be
a
man)
who
can
depend
on
no
one
else
(oh
yeah)
What
about
the
red
man
Who
met
you
at
the
coast?
You
never
dig
sharing
Always
had
to
have
the
most
And
what
about
Mississippi
The
boundary
of
old?
Tell
me
Who'll
pay
reparations
on
my
soul?
Call
my
brother
a
junkie
'cause
he
ain't
got
no
job
(no
job,
no
job)
Told
my
old
man
to
leave
me
when
times
got
hard
(so
hard)
Told
my
mother
she
got
to
carry
me
all
by
herself
Wanna
be
a
man
that
can
depend
on
no
one
else
(oh
yeah)
What
about
the
red
man
Who
met
you
at
the
coast?
You
never
dig
sharing
Always
had
to
have
the
most
And
what
about
Mississippi
The
boundaries
of
old?
Tell
me
Who'll
pay
reparations
on
my
soul?
Many
fine
speeches
(oh
yeah)
From
the
White
House
desk
(uh
huh)
Written
on
the
cue
cards
That
were
never
really
there.
Yes
But
the
heat
and
the
summer
were
there
And
the
freezing
winter's
cold
Tell
me
Who'll
pay
reparations
on
my
soul?
Who'll
pay
reparations
'Cause
I
don't
dig
segregation,
but
I
Can't
get
integration
I
got
to
take
it
to
the
United
Nations
Someone
to
help
me
away
from
this
nation
Tell
me
Who'll
pay
reparations
on
my
soul?
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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