On Coming From A Broken Home Lyrics - I'm New Here - Gil Scott-heron

I want to make this a special tribute 

to a family that contradicts the concepts 

heard the rules but wouldn't accept 

and women-folk raised me 

and i was full grown before i knew 

I came from a broken home 

sent to live with my grandma down south 

when my uncles was leaving 

and my grandfather had just left for heaven 

they said and as every-ologist would certainly note 

i had no strong male figure right? 

But lily Scott was absolutely not your mail order room service type cast black grandmother 

i was moved in with her; temporarily, just until things were patched, 

til this was patched and til that was patched 

until i became at 3, 4, 5,6 ,7, 8, 9 and 10 

the patch that held lily Scott who held me and like them 4 

i become one more and I loved her from the absolute marrow of my bones 

and we was holdin on, 

i come from a broken home 

She had more then the 5 senses 

she knew more than books could teach 

and raised everyone she touched just a little bit higher 

and all around her there was a natural sense 

as though she sensed what the stars say what the birds say 

what the wind and the clouds say 

a sensual soul and self that African sense 

and she raised me like she raised 4 of her own 

and i was hurt and scared and shocked when lily Scott left suddenly one night 

and they sent a limousine from heaven to take her to god, if there is one. 

So i knew she had gone; and 

i came from a broken home