[Intro: Gil Scott-Heron]
Aheh. You don't wanna be involved in this one, huh?
This here, this is, this is gonna be a blues number
But, first, I wanna do a little bit of background on the Blues and say what it is
Like, there are six cardinal colors, and colors have always come to
Signify more than simply that particular shade
Like redneck or "got the blues"
That's where you apply colors to something else, you know, to come up with
What it is you're trying to say
So, there are six cardinal colors: yellow, red, orange, green, blue, and purple
And there are 3,000 shades
And if you take these 3,000 shades and divide them by 6, you will come up with 500
Meaning there are at least 500 shades of the blues
For example, there is the I-ain't-got-me-no-money Blues
There is the I-ain't-got-me-no-woman Blues
There is the I-ain't-got-me-no-money-and-I-ain't-got-me-no-woman
Which is the double blues
And for years, it was thought that, that black people were the only one who could get the blues, so
So the blues hadn't come into no international type of fame (Had a corner on the market)
But, lately, we done had Frank Rizzo with the Lie Detector Blues
We done had the United States government talking ‘bout the Energy Crisis Blues
And we gonna dedicate this next poem here to, to Spearhead X
The Ex-Second in Command in terms of this country
(He got the blues)
And the poem is called "H2O-G-A-T-E Blues"
And if H2O is still water, and G-A-T-E is still gate
What we’re getting ready to deal on is the Watergate Blues
(Rated X!)
Let me see if I can dial this number right quick
Aheh. You don't wanna be involved in this one, huh?
This here, this is, this is gonna be a blues number
But, first, I wanna do a little bit of background on the Blues and say what it is
Like, there are six cardinal colors, and colors have always come to
Signify more than simply that particular shade
Like redneck or "got the blues"
That's where you apply colors to something else, you know, to come up with
What it is you're trying to say
So, there are six cardinal colors: yellow, red, orange, green, blue, and purple
And there are 3,000 shades
And if you take these 3,000 shades and divide them by 6, you will come up with 500
Meaning there are at least 500 shades of the blues
For example, there is the I-ain't-got-me-no-money Blues
There is the I-ain't-got-me-no-woman Blues
There is the I-ain't-got-me-no-money-and-I-ain't-got-me-no-woman
Which is the double blues
And for years, it was thought that, that black people were the only one who could get the blues, so
So the blues hadn't come into no international type of fame (Had a corner on the market)
But, lately, we done had Frank Rizzo with the Lie Detector Blues
We done had the United States government talking ‘bout the Energy Crisis Blues
And we gonna dedicate this next poem here to, to Spearhead X
The Ex-Second in Command in terms of this country
(He got the blues)
And the poem is called "H2O-G-A-T-E Blues"
And if H2O is still water, and G-A-T-E is still gate
What we’re getting ready to deal on is the Watergate Blues
(Rated X!)
Let me see if I can dial this number right quick
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