[00:00.00]Waiting For The Axe To Fall - Gil Scott-Heron
[00:08.23]Written by：Gil Scott-Heron
[00:16.46]Haah
[00:25.01]Brother livin' in a cell
[00:28.95]Doin' time in a County jail now
[00:32.93]You might think his life is hell
[00:35.29]But he told me first room
[00:37.49]He ever had to himself
[00:41.10]Waitin' for the axe to fall
[00:45.15]Sometimes lord I think that's all
[00:48.75]When you're head is on a block
[00:50.54]Ain't no way for it to stop
[00:53.23]You're waitin' for the axe to fall
[01:14.04]Brother served in viet nam and
[01:18.13]Found out no one gives a damn
[01:21.68]See
[01:22.23]Agent orange fell on his camp
[01:24.46]But everybody went deaf
[01:26.45]Brother turned looking for uncle Sam
[01:30.29]Waiting for the axe to fall
[01:34.44]Sometimes lord I think that's all
[01:38.19]When your head is in the noose
[01:39.81]And won't nobody turn you loose
[01:42.54]You're waiting for the axe to fall
[02:18.75]Sister on the welfare line
[02:22.82]Examining the threads of her life
[02:26.81]She never thought
[02:27.52]She'd be cheatin' and lyin'
[02:30.79]Makin' sure her
[02:31.59]And her kids survive
[02:33.20]It's so much better
[02:34.92]Waitin' for the axe to fall
[02:38.91]And sometimes lord I think that's all
[02:42.60]When you're head is on the block
[02:44.44]And ain't no way trying to stop
[02:47.00]You're waitin' for the axe to fall
[03:08.10]Last night grandma should got shook
[03:11.97]'Cause someone took her pocketbook
[03:16.15]She ain't safe in the neighborhood
[03:19.89]'Cause too many youngin's up to no good
[03:22.66]They're say can tight
[03:24.18]Waitin' for the axe to fall
[03:27.95]And sometimes lord I think that's all
[03:31.77]When your head is in the noose
[03:33.77]And won't nobody turn you loose
[03:36.21]You're waitin' for the axe to fall
[03:39.55]See you like to waitin'
[03:41.67]Feel just like waitin'
[03:43.74]See you like to waitin'
[03:45.82]Everybody waitin'
[03:47.64]See you like to waitin'
[03:49.74]Feel you like to waitin'
[03:51.65]See you like to
[03:52.60]See you like to
[03:53.75]Waitin' and waitin'
[03:55.35]And waitin' say
[03:56.84]Waitin' for the axe to fall
[04:00.72]And sometimes lord I think that's all
[04:04.16]'Cause when your head is on the block
[04:06.23]And ain't no way trying to stop
[04:08.78]You're waitin' for the axe to fall
[04:12.13]See you like to waitin'
[04:14.20]Everybody waitin'
[04:16.15]Never standin' waitin'
[04:18.18]Stand alone in waitin'
[04:20.13]See you like to waitin'
[04:22.36]See you like to waitin'
[04:24.18]See you like to
[04:25.40]See you like to
[04:26.38]See you like to
[04:27.40]See you like to
[04:28.39]I'm hey
[04:29.45]Waitin' for the axe to fall
[04:33.17]And sometimes lord I think that's all
[04:36.61]'Cause when your head is in the noose
[04:38.72]And won't nobody turn you loose
[04:41.20]You're waitin' for the axe to fall