Message To The Messengers Lyrics
| Song | Message To The Messengers |
| Artist | Gil Scott-Heron |
| Album | Spirits |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 作词 : Scott-Heron | |
| Hey, yeah, we the same brothas from a long time ago | |
| We was talkin' about television and doin' it on the radio | |
| What we did was to help our generation realize | |
| They had to get out there and get busy cause it wasn't gonna be televised | |
| We got respect for you rappers and the way they be free-weighin' | |
| But if you're gon' be teachin' folks things, make sure you know what you're sayin' | |
| Older folks in our neighborhood got plenty of know-how | |
| Remember if it wasn't for them, you wouldn't be out here now | |
| And I ain't comin' at you with no disrespect | |
| All I'm sayin' is that you damn well got to be correct | |
| Because if you're gonna be speakin' for a whole generation | |
| And you know enough to try and handle their education | |
| Make sure you know the real deal about past situations | |
| It ain't just repeatin' what you heard on the local | |
| TV stations ... | |
| Sometimes they tell lies and put 'em in a truthful disguise | |
| But the truth is that's why we said it wouldn't be televised | |
| They don't know what to say to our young folks, but they know that you do | |
| And if they really knew the truth...why would they tell you? | |
| The first sign is peace, tell all them gun totin' young brothas | |
| That the man is glad to see us out there killin' one another | |
| We raised too much hell when they was shootin' us down | |
| So they started poisoning our minds tryin' to jerk us all around | |
| And they tell us they got to come in and control our situation | |
| They want half of us on dope and the other half in incarceration | |
| If the ones they want dead ain't killed by what they instigated | |
| They put some dope on a brotha's body and claim it was drug related | |
| Tell them drug related means there don't need to be no investigation | |
| Or at least that's the way they're gon' play it on the local | |
| TV stations | |
| All your 9-millimeter brothas...give them somthin' to think about | |
| Tell them you heard that this is the new word, they got to work that stuff out | |
| But somehow they feel in the wrong way with a gun in their hands | |
| They feel real independent...but they just pullin' contracts for the man | |
| Five and five will tell you it's hopeless out there on the avenue | |
| But if they really knew the truth...why would they tell you? | |
| And if they look at you like you're insane | |
| And they start callin' you scarecrow and say you ain't got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks had finally co-opted your game | |
| Or worse yet implying that you don't really know... | |
| That's the same thing they said about us...a long time ago | |
| Young rappers, one more suggestion before | |
| I get out of your way | |
| But I appreciate the respect you give me and what you got to say | |
| I'm sayin' protect your community and spread that respect around | |
| Tell brothas and sistas they gotta calm that bullshit down | |
| Cause we're terrorizin' our old folks and brought fear into our homes | |
| And they ain't got to hang out with the senior citizens | |
| Just tell them, “ | |
| Dammit...leave the old folks alone†| |
| And we know who rippin' off the neighborhood, tell them, “ | |
| That BS has got to stop!†| |
| Tell them you're sorry they can't handle it out there | |
| But they got to take the crime off the block | |
| And if they look at you like you're insane | |
| And they start callin' you scarecrow and say you ain't got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks had finally co-opted your game | |
| Or worse yet saying that you really don't know... | |
| That's the same thing they said about me a long time ago | |
| And if they tell folks that you finally lost your nerve | |
| That's the same thing they said about us, when we said, “ | |
| Johannesburg†| |
| But I think the young folks need to know, that things don't go both ways | |
| You can't talk respect of every other song or just every other day | |
| What I'm speakin' on now is the raps about the women folks | |
| On one song she's your | |
| African Queen on the next one she's a joke | |
| And you ain't said no words that | |
| I haven't heard, but that ain't no compliment | |
| It only insults eight people out of ten and questions your intelligence | |
| Four letter words or four syllable words won't make you important | |
| It'll only magnify how shallow you are and let everybody know it | |
| And if they look at you like they think you insane | |
| Or they call you scarecrow thinkin' you ain't got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks have finally co-opted your game | |
| Or you really don't know... | |
| They said that about me a long time ago | |
| If they finally start to tell people that you lost your nerve | |
| That's what they said about | |
| Johannesburg | |
| You ain't insane...you have got a brain | |
| You haven't gone lame; you have got your game | |
| Remember...keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve ... | |
| I'm talkin' about peace |
| zuo ci : ScottHeron | |
| Hey, yeah, we the same brothas from a long time ago | |
| We was talkin' about television and doin' it on the radio | |
| What we did was to help our generation realize | |
| They had to get out there and get busy cause it wasn' t gonna be televised | |
| We got respect for you rappers and the way they be freeweighin' | |
| But if you' re gon' be teachin' folks things, make sure you know what you' re sayin' | |
| Older folks in our neighborhood got plenty of knowhow | |
| Remember if it wasn' t for them, you wouldn' t be out here now | |
| And I ain' t comin' at you with no disrespect | |
| All I' m sayin' is that you damn well got to be correct | |
| Because if you' re gonna be speakin' for a whole generation | |
| And you know enough to try and handle their education | |
| Make sure you know the real deal about past situations | |
| It ain' t just repeatin' what you heard on the local | |
| TV stations ... | |
| Sometimes they tell lies and put ' em in a truthful disguise | |
| But the truth is that' s why we said it wouldn' t be televised | |
| They don' t know what to say to our young folks, but they know that you do | |
| And if they really knew the truth... why would they tell you? | |
| The first sign is peace, tell all them gun totin' young brothas | |
| That the man is glad to see us out there killin' one another | |
| We raised too much hell when they was shootin' us down | |
| So they started poisoning our minds tryin' to jerk us all around | |
| And they tell us they got to come in and control our situation | |
| They want half of us on dope and the other half in incarceration | |
| If the ones they want dead ain' t killed by what they instigated | |
| They put some dope on a brotha' s body and claim it was drug related | |
| Tell them drug related means there don' t need to be no investigation | |
| Or at least that' s the way they' re gon' play it on the local | |
| TV stations | |
| All your 9millimeter brothas... give them somthin' to think about | |
| Tell them you heard that this is the new word, they got to work that stuff out | |
| But somehow they feel in the wrong way with a gun in their hands | |
| They feel real independent... but they just pullin' contracts for the man | |
| Five and five will tell you it' s hopeless out there on the avenue | |
| But if they really knew the truth... why would they tell you? | |
| And if they look at you like you' re insane | |
| And they start callin' you scarecrow and say you ain' t got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks had finally coopted your game | |
| Or worse yet implying that you don' t really know... | |
| That' s the same thing they said about us... a long time ago | |
| Young rappers, one more suggestion before | |
| I get out of your way | |
| But I appreciate the respect you give me and what you got to say | |
| I' m sayin' protect your community and spread that respect around | |
| Tell brothas and sistas they gotta calm that bullshit down | |
| Cause we' re terrorizin' our old folks and brought fear into our homes | |
| And they ain' t got to hang out with the senior citizens | |
| Just tell them, | |
| Dammit... leave the old folks alone | |
| And we know who rippin' off the neighborhood, tell them, | |
| That BS has got to stop! | |
| Tell them you' re sorry they can' t handle it out there | |
| But they got to take the crime off the block | |
| And if they look at you like you' re insane | |
| And they start callin' you scarecrow and say you ain' t got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks had finally coopted your game | |
| Or worse yet saying that you really don' t know... | |
| That' s the same thing they said about me a long time ago | |
| And if they tell folks that you finally lost your nerve | |
| That' s the same thing they said about us, when we said, | |
| Johannesburg | |
| But I think the young folks need to know, that things don' t go both ways | |
| You can' t talk respect of every other song or just every other day | |
| What I' m speakin' on now is the raps about the women folks | |
| On one song she' s your | |
| African Queen on the next one she' s a joke | |
| And you ain' t said no words that | |
| I haven' t heard, but that ain' t no compliment | |
| It only insults eight people out of ten and questions your intelligence | |
| Four letter words or four syllable words won' t make you important | |
| It' ll only magnify how shallow you are and let everybody know it | |
| And if they look at you like they think you insane | |
| Or they call you scarecrow thinkin' you ain' t got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks have finally coopted your game | |
| Or you really don' t know... | |
| They said that about me a long time ago | |
| If they finally start to tell people that you lost your nerve | |
| That' s what they said about | |
| Johannesburg | |
| You ain' t insane... you have got a brain | |
| You haven' t gone lame you have got your game | |
| Remember... keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve ... | |
| I' m talkin' about peace |
| zuò cí : ScottHeron | |
| Hey, yeah, we the same brothas from a long time ago | |
| We was talkin' about television and doin' it on the radio | |
| What we did was to help our generation realize | |
| They had to get out there and get busy cause it wasn' t gonna be televised | |
| We got respect for you rappers and the way they be freeweighin' | |
| But if you' re gon' be teachin' folks things, make sure you know what you' re sayin' | |
| Older folks in our neighborhood got plenty of knowhow | |
| Remember if it wasn' t for them, you wouldn' t be out here now | |
| And I ain' t comin' at you with no disrespect | |
| All I' m sayin' is that you damn well got to be correct | |
| Because if you' re gonna be speakin' for a whole generation | |
| And you know enough to try and handle their education | |
| Make sure you know the real deal about past situations | |
| It ain' t just repeatin' what you heard on the local | |
| TV stations ... | |
| Sometimes they tell lies and put ' em in a truthful disguise | |
| But the truth is that' s why we said it wouldn' t be televised | |
| They don' t know what to say to our young folks, but they know that you do | |
| And if they really knew the truth... why would they tell you? | |
| The first sign is peace, tell all them gun totin' young brothas | |
| That the man is glad to see us out there killin' one another | |
| We raised too much hell when they was shootin' us down | |
| So they started poisoning our minds tryin' to jerk us all around | |
| And they tell us they got to come in and control our situation | |
| They want half of us on dope and the other half in incarceration | |
| If the ones they want dead ain' t killed by what they instigated | |
| They put some dope on a brotha' s body and claim it was drug related | |
| Tell them drug related means there don' t need to be no investigation | |
| Or at least that' s the way they' re gon' play it on the local | |
| TV stations | |
| All your 9millimeter brothas... give them somthin' to think about | |
| Tell them you heard that this is the new word, they got to work that stuff out | |
| But somehow they feel in the wrong way with a gun in their hands | |
| They feel real independent... but they just pullin' contracts for the man | |
| Five and five will tell you it' s hopeless out there on the avenue | |
| But if they really knew the truth... why would they tell you? | |
| And if they look at you like you' re insane | |
| And they start callin' you scarecrow and say you ain' t got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks had finally coopted your game | |
| Or worse yet implying that you don' t really know... | |
| That' s the same thing they said about us... a long time ago | |
| Young rappers, one more suggestion before | |
| I get out of your way | |
| But I appreciate the respect you give me and what you got to say | |
| I' m sayin' protect your community and spread that respect around | |
| Tell brothas and sistas they gotta calm that bullshit down | |
| Cause we' re terrorizin' our old folks and brought fear into our homes | |
| And they ain' t got to hang out with the senior citizens | |
| Just tell them, | |
| Dammit... leave the old folks alone | |
| And we know who rippin' off the neighborhood, tell them, | |
| That BS has got to stop! | |
| Tell them you' re sorry they can' t handle it out there | |
| But they got to take the crime off the block | |
| And if they look at you like you' re insane | |
| And they start callin' you scarecrow and say you ain' t got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks had finally coopted your game | |
| Or worse yet saying that you really don' t know... | |
| That' s the same thing they said about me a long time ago | |
| And if they tell folks that you finally lost your nerve | |
| That' s the same thing they said about us, when we said, | |
| Johannesburg | |
| But I think the young folks need to know, that things don' t go both ways | |
| You can' t talk respect of every other song or just every other day | |
| What I' m speakin' on now is the raps about the women folks | |
| On one song she' s your | |
| African Queen on the next one she' s a joke | |
| And you ain' t said no words that | |
| I haven' t heard, but that ain' t no compliment | |
| It only insults eight people out of ten and questions your intelligence | |
| Four letter words or four syllable words won' t make you important | |
| It' ll only magnify how shallow you are and let everybody know it | |
| And if they look at you like they think you insane | |
| Or they call you scarecrow thinkin' you ain' t got no brain | |
| Or start tellin' folks that you suddenly gone lame | |
| Or that white folks have finally coopted your game | |
| Or you really don' t know... | |
| They said that about me a long time ago | |
| If they finally start to tell people that you lost your nerve | |
| That' s what they said about | |
| Johannesburg | |
| You ain' t insane... you have got a brain | |
| You haven' t gone lame you have got your game | |
| Remember... keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve | |
| Keep the nerve ... | |
| I' m talkin' about peace |
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