Ny Is Killing Me Lyrics - We're New Here - Gil Scott-heron

Yeah the doctors don't know, but New York was killing me, 

Bunch of doctors coming round, they don't know 

That New York is killing me 

Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee 

Let me tell ya fast city ain't living all 

It's cracked up to be 

Fast city living it all 

It's cracked up to be 

Yes seem I need to go home 

And slow down in Jackson, Tennessee 

Yes I lay down, I lay down 

The doctor: "Try to take it all in" 

Yeah lay down, lay down 

To try to take it all in 

(Take it all in) 

Yeah you got 8 million people 

And I didn't have a single friend 

Don't you know, don't you know 

New York was killing me 

Yes, I was standing nearly dying here 

New York was killing me 

Seems like I need to start over 

And move back home in Jackson, Tennessee 

Lord have mercy, mercy on me 

Yeah Lord have mercy, have mercy on me 

Tell him to bury my body back home in Jackson, Tennessee 

Yeah Lord have mercy, have mercy on me 

Yeah I need to be back home, need to be back home, 

Need to be back home, need to be back home yeah 

Born in Chicago but I go home Tennessee 

Yeah I born in Chicago but I...