The Essential Sly and the Family Stone.
He was a musical genius whose flesh was too weak to survive his genius unscathed.
Even today his recent lyrics speak from another source.
Alive but not for long.
He cannot record but the poetry lives...
Give the kid a flag, it teaches you to salute
Give the kid a gun, you teach him how to shoot
One day the kids in the bushes, he starts to cry
Because never ever nobody, taught him how to die
He's in the bushes, there's no more blood to give
Said his odds say that he's dying
But his God said he would live
© Sylvester Stewart