saw something in the paper just the other day,. it was all about a band and the music that they play. black 47 advocates violence,. musical guerillas in their terrorist alliance.
First in flight. First in flight. First in flight. ('Cause all we got is rhythm and timin'). First in flight. (We go beyond the edge of the sky). . Free, like a bird out in the wind in the night.
Oh, I see you lookin' from the corner of your eye. As I put on me make-up, hoist me skirt up high. I won't be comin' home tonight, just so as you know.
This is God's act, we're just actors in it. . Labor, it's workin', gotta keep on pushing. Gotta keep on scratching, and hustling, and struggling on. Do it now 'cos it ain't that long 'til it's gone.
If it's all so far behind me why does it seem like yesterday. The lark in the morning, your auld lad tossin' hay. The ferry in the harbor dancing jigs upon the waves.
I don't know why it all fell apart. I was too young, you were too smart. I guess you knew. It was goin' nowhere right from the start. . But your memory brings a smile.
Oh, me name, it is Sam Hall, chimney sweep, chimney sweep. Oh, me name, it is Sam Hall, chimney sweep. Oh, me name, it is Sam Hall and I hate you one and all.
Super fabulous, the patterns have been uplifted. Smoke a chalice with the maddest and the most spliffted. Turn the alphabet to calculus and flow swiftly.
I got a job in a band called Black 47. I was doin' nothin' special after 11. Oh we learned some tunes and wrote some songs. And we bought ourselves a drum machine to keep the beat strong.
I was born in the Congo. I walked to the fertile crescent and built the Sphinx. I designed a pyramid so tough that a star. That only glows every one hundred years.
The strobe was pulsin' in the after-hours, the booze was flowin' free. When I first saw you across that room on down by Houston Street. You were wrapped around a wiseguy for all the world to see.
I be the first ever Asian astronaut, blastin' off, castin' off. The ties that bind like a smashed guitar. Rode a mastodon out Jurassic Park. Chased by a fan in a Tyrannosaur mask, travel the traffic cop.
Another sleepless night. On a foreign shore. Candle flickers by my bed. Locks bolt my door. . I drink too much wine. But it gives my brain relief. Stops the meanderings.
(Gift of Gab). And I come like this. . (scratched). I've got a few things I wanna say. . (Gift of Gab). I'm gunnin', ya runnin away, do not stay. 'cause the wrath of the gift will be hittin' ya spliff.
Don't let money change ya. Laah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah. Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah. Laah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah. Lah-di-dah, da-da-dee-dah. . Laah, di-dah, da-da-dee-dah.
You can wreck my name, vilify me, stretch me on the rack. But I won't bow down to any man, be he white or be he black. Take away my passport, refuse to let me travel.
Days turn to night. It reveals itself true light. Back at home, out of wrong. Where it feels right. . Days turn to night. It reveals itself true light.
One starry night as I lay sleepin'. One starry night as I lay in bed. Dreamed I heard wagon wheels a'creakin'. When I awoke, love, found you had fled.
We getting' ready, to start the set. . It's clockwork, got work, put it in like doctors with awkwardness. Mopped your whole flock up, and walked toward ya.
'Whole house freeze'. . It was a Thursday I stepped to the club, there she was. Draped in a burgundy dress, silhouetted superbly. Curved indeed, she started staring in my direction.