Lyrics to
Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

This version of Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox was released by Gil Scott-Heron in 1970.

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This is just like listening
to a conversation being held
by the many people who congregate
on one of the most popular blocks
in the largest area of black America

Did you ever eat cornbread and black eye peas
Or watermelon and mustard greens?
Get high as you can on Saturday night
Go to church on Sunday to set things right

Listen

I seen Miss Blake after Willy yesterday
She’d’ve killed anybody who got in her way
Hey look I got a TV for a pound on the head
And Jimmy Jean got the best Panamanian Red

No I ain’t got on no underclothes
But we all got to get through this gypsy rose
I think Clay got his very good points
You say a trade bag with thirteen joints?

Who cares if LBJ is in town?
Up with Stokely and H. Rap Brown
I don’t know if the riots is wrong
But whitey’s been kickin’ my ass for too long

I was s’posed to baby but they held my pay.
Did you hear what the number was yesterday?
Junkies is all right when they ain’t broke
They leaves you alone when they high on dope

Damn, but I wish I could get up and move
Shut up. Hell you know that ain’t true.

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Gil Scott-Heron has released many songs over the years besides Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox. Gil Scott-Heron released songs from 1970 to 2005 spanning across albums like Small Talk At 125th And Lenox, Pieces Of A Man, Free Will, Winter In America, The First Minute Of A New Day, It's Your World, From South Africa To South Carolina, Bridges, Secrets, The Mind Of Gil Scott-Heron, 1980, Real Eyes, Reflections, Moving Target, Spirits, and Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Messages (Anthology). Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Gil Scott-Heron.

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The lyrics for Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Gil Scott-Heron. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox - Gil Scott-Heron and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox by Gil Scott-Heron in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox" means the words set to the music of Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gil Scott-Heron. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox and the lyrics to Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gil Scott-Heron who came here looking just for the lyrics to Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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