Gil Scott-Heron — Paint It Black

Picture a man of nearly thirty Who seems twice as old, with clothes, torn and dirty Give him a job, shining shoes Or cleaning out toilets with bus station crews Give him six children with nothing to eat Expose them to life, on a ghetto street Tie an old rag to his wife's head And have her pregnant and lying in bed Stuff them all in a Harlem house And then tell them how bout things are down South