Scott-Heron, Gil - On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2) Lyrics
And so my life has been guided
All the love I needed was provided
And through my mothers sacrifices I saw where her life went
To give more than birth to me, but life to me
And this ain’t one of the clichés about black women being strong
But life courage determined to do more than just survive
And too many homes have a missing woman or man
Without the feeling of missing love
Maybe they are homes that are hurt
But they are no real lives that hurt without reach
But not broken
Unless the homes of soldiers – stationed overseas
Or lost in battles or broken
Unless the homes of firemen, policemen, construction workers,
seamen, railroad men, truckers, pilots
Because men die, men lose, they are lost and they leave
And so do women ...
I came from what they called "a broken home"
But they ever really called it "a house"
They would have known how wrong they were
We were working on our lives and our homes
Dealing with what we had, not what we didn’t have
My life has been guided by women
But because of them – I am the man.
God bless you mama – and thank you.
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Scott-Heron, Gil On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2) Comments
She don’t believe in shooting stars but she believes in shoes and cars wood floors in the new apartment
She don’t believe in shootin’ stars...
Gil was like an older brother to me a voice of reason when I had no one to talk to and in this latter day of his I'm new here even though he's not here he still talks to me rip Gil Scott Heron.