The Get out of the Ghetto Blues

The Get out of the Ghetto Blues Lyrics

Song The Get out of the Ghetto Blues
Artist Gil Scott-Heron
Album The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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[00:45.35] What we want to discuss here
[00:49.03] are routes out of the ghetto.
[00:51.40] This is called
[00:52.65] the Get Out of the Ghetto blues.
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[01:03.63] I know you think you're cool--
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[01:09.06] LORD, if they bus your kids to school...
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[01:24.47] I know you think you're cool,
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[01:28.44] Just cuz they bus your kids to school.
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[01:43.49] But you ain't got a thing to lose;
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[01:48.12] You just got the get out of the ghetto blues.
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[02:03.15] I know you think you're cool
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[02:08.95] If you're gettin' two WELFARE checks;
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[02:23.24] You done TOLD me you think you're cool
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[02:28.61] Because you're gettin' two WELFARE checks.
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[02:40.86] Yea! But you got ten years to lose
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[02:45.11] if they catch you
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[02:47.42] Just tryin' to fight that get out of the ghetto blues.
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[02:56.87] what it is, what it is.
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[03:53.97] If he don't catch you in the wash,
[03:55.59] LORD knows he'll catch you in the rinse.
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[03:59.89] I know you think you're cool
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[04:04.96] Just 'cuz you shooting that stuff in your arm.
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[04:17.75] I seen you nodding
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[04:25.55] 'Cuz you shoot that STUFF into your arm.
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[04:37.41] And it don't matter which pine box you choose:
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[04:43.90] You got the get out of the ghetto blues.
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[04:52.63] Yeah.
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