William Clifford Brown (Big Brown)'s poem "Between Heaven and Hell" (1971)

Yo yo yo yo

Looking for the pleasure

Come to see the pain

All the shit you treasure

Is all in vain

All in vain

All in vain 

The man is coward

The man is dead  (DEAD)

The Man walks around without his head 

The man is evil

The mans deceitful  

The man will kill for

The bread he’s feeble

The man will save us the man is king 

The man fulfills the promise he brings

The man is faithful, the man is grateful

Say what you will the man isn’t hateful 

The man is stable the man is aloof 

The man is cool he just goes with the groove

The man doesn’t have really nothing to prove

The man wins cuz he has nothing to lose

Many races and many faces of the man 

Dig the traces don’t erase but understand 

Tie your laces don’t trip the basics

Don’t script my phrases it’ll flip your basement

The man is brave and

The man can cave in 

All in all he can’t stop the cravin 

he’s..

Looking for the pleasure

Come to see the pain

All the shit you treasure

All in vain

Looking for a certainty 

Things that you can claim

All that which you treasure

Is all in vain

Face the fiction

The mirror of contradictions

A grand illusion the real life depiction 

Who knows how the play will end 

Death the denouement, be sure to attend

Some may seem so sure they comprehend,

The tricks and wizardry of the magician

The distinction between pure and the sin 

And the enemy from the kin

Is the day of your wake the day you wake up

From the dream that you chose to make up

It marks the break up

From the supreme 

And the reality or our conscious stream 

Do you believe the soul never died or ever born

Comes in different bodies, shapes, and forms 

So when the corpse gets lit with torches 

And the brain is scorched, where’s the soul gone? 

Looking for the pleasure

Come to see the pain

All the shit you treasure

All in vain

Looking for a certainty 

Things that you can claim

All that which you treasure

Is all in vain