Push Comes To Shove - Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson

Ain’t nobody seen you

Can nobody scold you

Can nobody blame you,

And make you feel bad

Nobody should tie you

Tell you I told you

Nobody should ride you,

About the commitments you had.

Cuz they done learned you

And they done burned you

Showed you idealistic is all you were

Everybody gotta realize

That we all had to compromise

Had to put on suit and ties

When push came to shove

(it's seems like)

Push comes to shove once in your lifetime (yes and)

Push comes to shove to find out just what’s on your mind

Push comes to shove to find exactly what you’re made of

Nobody can know

Nobody should tease you

Not try to disown you (bizown?)

And make you feel strange

Nobody got to explain

Ain’t nothing really to explain

Everything that rearrange--- (?)

and the weather can change (?)

But they done taught you

Cuz they done caught you

Showed you unrealistic is all you was

So everybody once believed

Was only showing how naive

Gotta give up to be free

When push came to shove.

Push comes to shove once in your lifetime (yes and)

Push comes to shove to find out just what’s on your mind

Push comes to shove to find exactly what you’re made of

Well, everybody knew somehow we was somehow running late

And with the captains overboard, who was handling a ship of fate?

And all we knew was what we really did not know

And that’s when push was sure 'nough coming to shove

Push comes to shove to find exactly what you’re made of…

Cuz they done learned you

And they done burned you

Showed you idealistic is all you was

Everybody gotta realize

That we all had to compromise

Had to put on suit and ties

When push came to shove

Push comes to shove once in your lifetime (yes and)

Push comes to shove to find out just what’s on your mind

Push comes to shove to find exactly what you’re made of