Lyrics New York is Killing Me - Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven

New York is Killing Me

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…