[Verse 1: Gil Scott-Heron]
A circle spinning faster
And getting larger all the time
A whirlpool spelled disaster
For all the people who don't rhyme
Him who don't fit through the needle's eye
Him who just don't understand
Understand, understand, understand

[Chorus: Gil Scott-Heron]
A brand new sense of freedom
A brand new sense of time
Him may go and stand alone now and
Leave the hate and fear behind

[Verse 2: Gil Scott-Heron]
All the millions spent for killing
Seems the whole world must be dying
All the children who go hungry
How much food we could be buying
Him who don't fit through the needle's eye
Him who just don't understand
Understand, understand, understand

[Chorus: Gil Scott-Heron]
A brand new sense of freedom
A brand new sense of time
Him may go and stand alone now and
Leave the hate and fear behind
[Verse 3: Gil Scott-Heron]
People wake up every morning
And simply push their lives aside
A-they seem to carry all their feelings
Crushed and crumbled up inside
Inside, inside, inside
Him who don't fit through the needle's eye
Him who just don't understand

[Verse 4: Gil Scott-Heron]
So I went to see my father
Many questions on my mind
But he didn't want to answer me
God, the whole world must be blind
Him who don't fit through the needle's eye
Him may someday go insane
Insane, insane, insane

[Chorus: Gil Scott-Heron]
Without a brand new sense of freedom
A brand new sense of time
Him may go and stand alone now and
Leave the hate and fear behind
Yeah, behind, yeah, yeah