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[ti:O.D.]
[ar:The Last Poets]
[al:Best of The Last Poets (The Early Years)]
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[00:00.000]O.D. - The Last Poets
[00:00.590]Bird lives
[00:06.969]The brother wrote on the rotted pasteboard wall
[00:10.838]Next to the sign that read
[00:13.338]Please don't pee in our hall
[00:15.738]And then he reached in his slide
[00:18.038]And pulled out the tiny transparent bag
[00:20.598]The one filled with the chalk white powder the junkies call scag
[00:25.448]Hi sighed as he hit the big vein in his arm
[00:29.738]And his mind took off on bird's musical charm
[00:34.368]Now brother bird was blowing embraceable you
[00:37.438]Like only he was hip to the secret he knew
[00:40.698]Wow the brother said as he slipped off into a nod
[00:44.518]Bird sure eases the pain
[00:46.708]Now I wanna hear brother john coltrane
[00:50.858]He tried to get up
[00:52.328]But his body wouldn't move
[00:54.328]His mind told him his senses were in a groove
[00:58.188]Finally bird was through
[01:00.368]And 'trane took over in a spiritual debut
[01:03.788]His heart began to pound
[01:05.638]As he dug the boss sound
[01:07.348]Damn bird and 'trane sure enough was down
[01:10.968]And then he looked up and saw
[01:12.938]That the box wasn't even on
[01:14.918]And it was damn near dawn
[01:16.978]I'm high
[01:28.588]I'm blind
[01:36.278]I'm wasted
[01:42.208]If I could only come down
[01:44.818]There I go there I go there I go
[01:46.108]There I go there I go there I go
[01:47.408]There I go there I go there I go
[01:48.808]There I go there I go there I go
[01:50.248]There I go there I go there I go
[01:51.807]There I go there I go there I go
[01:53.636]There I go
[01:54.586]Sh*t give me some dough
[01:57.166]So I can buy me some smack
[01:59.296]And get back on the fast track
[02:01.895]He supped off into a nod
[02:03.825]And the sounds became odd
[02:06.334]And he could no longer hear trane or bird
[02:08.564]He could only hear the loud unspoken word
[02:11.753]Get back n****r you're black
[02:13.633]No but I'm beautiful he said
[02:16.073]And then he suddenly realized that he was dead
[02:19.653]And he was being lowered into the ground
[02:22.293]And couldn't utter a single sound
[02:24.783]And his family and friends were standing around
[02:28.013]With their heads hanging down
[02:30.543]Crying and carrying on
[02:32.713]Cause their beautiful black son was gone
[02:35.333]No I'm not dead his mind said
[02:39.222]Don't bury me
[02:40.572]Cause I didn't
[02:41.802]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:43.062]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:44.242]I didn'ti didn't I didn't
[02:45.172]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:46.262]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:47.292]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:48.322]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:49.352]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:50.451]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:51.800]I didn't I didn't I didn't
[02:53.290]I didn't
[02:54.650]And then he realized
[02:56.519]O.D.
[02:59.729]O.D.
[03:01.459]O.D.
[03:02.759]O.D.