Washington, D.C. Lyrics

Seems to me, it’s still in light time people knifed up on 14th street
Makes me feel it’s always the right time for them people showing up and coming clean
Didn't make the one
Second to none

It’s the nation’s capital
It’s the nation’s capital
It’s the nation’s capital, it’s Washington D.C
(mmmm-hmmm)

Symbols of democracy, pinned up against the coast
Outhouse of bureaucracy, surrounded by a moat
Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight
Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night
Morning come and bring the tourists, craning rubber necks
Catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck
It’s a mass of irony for all the world to see
It’s the nation’s capital, it’s Washington D.C

It’s the nation’s capital
It’s the nation’s capital
It’s the nation’s capital, it’s Washington D.C
It’s the nation’s capital
Got you feeling capital
Punishment is capital in Washington D.C

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Washington D.C. is a song from the album “Moving Target”. Gil Scott Heron as usual jeers at politic.

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1982
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