Many suggestions
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And documents written.
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Many directions
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For the end that was given.
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They gave us
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Pieces of silver and pieces of gold.
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Tell me,
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Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
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Many fine speeches (oh yeah)
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From the White House desk (uh huh)
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Written on the cue cards
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That were never really there. Yes,
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But the heat and the summer were there
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And the freezing winter's cold. Now
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Tell me,
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Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
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Call my brother a junkie 'cause he ain't got no job (no job, no job).
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Told my old man to leave me when times got hard (so hard).
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Told my mother she got to carry me all by herself.
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And now that I want to be a man (be a man) who can depend on no one else (oh yeah).
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What about the red man
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Who met you at the coast?
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You never dig sharing;
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Always had to have the most.
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And what about Mississippi,
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The boundary of old?
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Tell me,
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Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
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Call my brother a junkie 'cause he ain't got no job
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Told my old man to leave me when times got hard (so hard).
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Told my mother she got to carry me all by herself.
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Wanna be a man that can depend on no one else (oh yeah).
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What about the red man,
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Who met you at the coast?
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You never dig sharing;
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Always had to have the most.
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And what about Mississippi,
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The boundaries of old?
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Tell me,
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Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
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Many fine speeches (oh yeah)
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From the White House desk (uh huh)
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Written on the cue cards
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That were never really there. Yes,
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But the heat and the summer were there
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And the freezing winter's cold.
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Tell me,
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Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
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Who'll pay reparations,
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a¢æ?Cause I don't dig segregation, but I
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can't get integration
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I got to take it to the United Nations,
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Someone to help me away from this nation.
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Tell me,
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Who'll pay reparations on my soul?
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Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?
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| Gil Scott-Heron |
