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GIL SCOTT-HERON 1. New York Is Killing Me (Gil Scott-Heron) von: I’m New Here (XL, 2010) Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know That New York is killing me Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee Let me tell ya fast city ain’t living all It’s cracked up to be Fast city living it all It’s cracked up to be Yes seem I need to go home And slow down in Jackson, Tennessee Yes I lay down, I lay down The doctor: „Try to take it all in“ Yeah lay down, lay down To try to take it all in (Take it all in) Yeah you got 8 million people And I didn’t have a single friend Don’t you know, don’t you know New York was killing me Yes, I was standing nearly dying here New York was killing me Seems like I need to start over And move back home in Jackson, Tennessee Lord have mercy, mercy on me Yeah Lord have mercy, have mercy on me Tell him to bury my body back home in Jackson, Tennessee Yeah Lord have mercy, have mercy on me Yeah I need to be back home, need to be back home, Need to be back home, need to be back home yeah Born in Chicago but I go home Tennessee Yeah I born in Chicago but I… :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14752025-1581020754-5883.jpeg.jpg)
Da sehnt sich einer nach daheim – „in NYC hatte ich keinen einzigen Freund“, singt er. Das glaube ich ihm sofort!
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Voltaire: „Wer Menschen dazu bringen kann, Absurditäten zu glauben, kann sie dazu bringen, Gräueltaten zu begehen“
Mark Twain: “Eine Lüge kann den halben Erdball umrunden, während sich die Wahrheit noch die Schuhe zubindet”
