Gil Scott-Heron - Storm Music "The Best Of"

Pieces of a Man

Jagged jigsaw pieces
Tossed about the room
I saw my grandma sweeping
With her old straw broom
But she didn't know what she was doing
She could hardly understand
That she was really sweeping up
Pieces of a man

I saw my daddy meet the mailman
And I heard the mailman say
"Now don't you take this letter to heart now Jimmy
'Cause they've laid off nine others today"
But he didn't know what he was saying
He could hardly understand
That he was only talking to
Pieces of a man

I saw the thunder and heard the lightning!
And felt the burden of his shame
And for some unknown reason
He never turned my way

Pieces of that letter
Were tossed about that room
And now I hear the sound of sirens
Come knifing through the gloom
But they don't know what they are doing
They could hardly understand
That they're only arresting
Pieces of a man

I saw him go to pieces
I saw him go to pieces
He was always such a good man
He was always such a strong, strong man
Yeah, I saw him go to pieces
I saw him go to pieces



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Writer(s): Gil Scott-heron, Brian Jackson
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Other Album Tracks

  1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Early Version
  2. Is That Jazz?
  3. Grandma's Hands
  4. Lady Day and John Coltrane
  5. Pieces of a Man
  6. Or Down You Fall
  7. Get Out of the Ghetto Blues
  8. When You Are Who You Are
  9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
  10. Storm Music

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Altri album

  1. Legend In His Own Mind (feat. Amnesia Express) [Live, Bremen, 1983]
  2. Ghetto Ghosts (Live 1977)
  3. Plug In, Turn On, Cop Out (Live 1983)
  4. Live in The Bottle
  5. Tour De Force
  6. Spirits
  7. Aint Really A Life
  8. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  9. Johannesburg
  10. Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

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