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