The Prisoner-Gil Scott-Heron

[00:00.00] Here I am after so many years [01:39.93]Hounded by hatred and trapped by fear [01:53.52]I'm in a box, [01:58.20]I've got no place to go [02:04.71]If I follow my mind, [02:10.44]I know I'll slaughter my own [02:19.92]Help me, I'm the prisoner won't you hear my plea? [02:34.26]I need somebody, yeah, to listen to me [02:46.71]I beg you, brothers and sisters [02:51.03]I'm counting on you, yeah [03:27.30]Black babies in the womb are shackled and bound [03:40.89]Chained by the caveman who keeps beauty down [03:53.70]Smacked on the ass when they're squalling and wet [04:06.93]Heir to a spineless man who never forgets [04:20.19]Never forgets that he's a prisoner, can't you hear my plea?' [04:33.87]Cause I need somebody, [04:40.20]Lord knows, to listen to me [04:47.22]I'm a stranger to my son [04:50.19]Who wonders why his daddy runs, yeah [07:04.77]On my way to work in the morning [07:09.24]When I don't give a damn [07:18.21]Can't nobody, can't nobody [07:20.07]Can't nobody, can't nobody see just who in hell [07:25.98]I am?Hemmed in by a suit, yes, all choked up in a tie [07:45.42]Ain't no wonder some times near morning [07:51.66]I hear my woman cry [07:58.53]She knows her man is a prisoner, won't you hear my plea? [08:12.48]Yeah, 'cause [08:13.74]I need somebody to listen to me [08:25.50]My woman, she don't say but she hates [08:29.01]To see her man chained this way, yeah [08:38.55]Help me, I'm the prisoner [08:51.15]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [08:58.65]I'm the prisoner