[00:00.00]Winter In America (Live) - Gil Scott-Heron
[00:51.36]From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims
[00:57.10]And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains
[01:03.19]Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds
[01:08.81]Looking for the rain
[01:14.09]Yes they've been looking for the rain
[01:20.82]Just like the cities staggered on the coastline
[01:28.88]Living in a nation that just can't take much more
[01:35.10]Like the forest buried beneath the highway
[01:40.58]Never had a chance to grow
[01:46.72]Never had a chance to grow
[01:52.63]And now it's winter
[02:00.48]Winter in America
[02:06.04]So tell them we're all of the healers
[02:09.84]Don't been killed
[02:13.22]Or been betrayed yeah
[02:17.07]And people know there's some wrong
[02:19.02]And everybody all know
[02:20.63]It's winter
[02:26.19]Winter in America
[02:31.84]The truth is they are ain't nobody fighting
[02:35.60]'Cause nobody knows what to save
[02:41.41]Save your soul
[02:45.63]Winter in America
[02:50.30]The Constitution
[02:54.73]A noble piece of paper
[02:58.02]With free society
[03:00.81]Struggled but it died in vain
[03:04.56]And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
[03:13.32]Hoping that it rains
[03:15.70]Yeah it's been hoping for some rain
[03:21.42]Just don't look like rain
[03:23.44]And I see the robins
[03:27.03]Perched in barren treetops
[03:29.51]Watching last-ditch racists marching across the floor
[03:36.24]And like the peace sign that melted in our dreams
[03:41.91]Never had a chance to grow
[03:48.37]Never had a chance to grow
[03:52.47]And somebody want to know till
[03:55.27]There it's winter
[04:00.94]Nothing grows in the winter in America
[04:08.36]So thell them we're all of the healers
[04:12.24]Have been killed
[04:15.34]Or they've been betrayed
[04:18.72]Yeah people know there's some wrong
[04:21.24]Hey it feels like
[04:22.97]It's winter
[04:27.08]It seems like winter in America
[04:34.34]The truth is they are ain't nobody fighting
[04:38.64]'Cause nobody knows what to save
[04:44.63]Save the babies
[04:48.40]Winter in America
[06:53.59]And now it's winter
[07:00.22]It's cold
[07:01.36]It's winter in America
[07:06.71]Yes don't tell them we're all of the healers
[07:10.24]Seek to help us but done been killed
[07:14.88]They put me to jail
[07:18.03]Hey people know there's some wrong
[07:20.92]And everybody all know
[07:22.27]It's winter
[07:26.43]It seems like
[07:28.15]Winter in America
[07:33.40]The truth is they are ain't nobody fighting
[07:38.31]'Cause nobody knows what to save
[07:46.97]The truth is they are ain't nobody fighting
[07:51.76]'Cause nobody knows nobody knows
[07:56.53]What to do what to do
[08:00.54]The truth is they are ain't nobody fighting
[08:04.69]'Cause nobody knows what to save