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[ar:Gil Scott-Heron]
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[00:00.00]New York Is Killing Me - Gil Scott-Heron
[00:09.21]Written by:Gil?Scott-Heron
[00:18.42]Yeah the doctors don't know but New York was killing me
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[00:27.73]Bunch of doctors coming round they don't know
[00:30.99]That New York is killing me
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[00:36.78]Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in jackson tennessee
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[00:46.10]Let me tell ya fast city ain't living all
[00:48.71]
[00:49.60]It's cracked up to be
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[00:55.07]Fast city living it all
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[00:59.10]It's cracked up to be
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[01:04.36]Yes seem I need to go home
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[01:07.35]And slow down in jackson tennessee
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[01:41.64]Yes I lay down I lay down
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[01:44.59]The doctor try to take it all in
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[01:50.93]Yeah lay down lay down
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[01:54.90]To try to take it all in
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[01:58.69]Take it all in
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[02:00.15]Yeah you got 8 million people
[02:03.19]And I didn't have a single friend
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[02:10.02]Don't you know don't you know
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[02:13.48]New York was killing me
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[02:18.68]Yes I was standing nearly dying here
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[02:22.76]New York was killing me
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[02:28.55]Seems like I need to start over
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[02:31.17]And move back home in jackson tennessee
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[02:38.63]Lord have mercy mercy on me
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[02:46.67]Yeah lord have mercy have mercy on me
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[02:56.21]Tell him to bury my body back home in jackson tennessee
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[03:07.14]Yeah lord have mercy have mercy on me
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[03:33.10]Yeah I need to be back home need to be back home
[03:39.70]Need to be back home need to be back home yeah
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[03:44.44]Born in chicago but I go home tennessee
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[03:51.42]Yeah I born in chicago but I