gil scott - heron - the revolution will not be televised lyrics
“the revolution will not be televised”
you will not be able to stay home, brother.
you will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
you will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
skip out for beer during commercials,
because the revolution will not be televised.
the revolution will not be televised.
the revolution will not be brought to you by xerox
in 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
the revolution will not show you pictures of nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by john
mitch-ll, general abrams and mendel rivers to eat
hog maws confiscated from a harlem sanctuary.
the revolution will not be televised.
the revolution will not be brought to you by the
schaefer award theatre and will not star natalie
woods and steve mcqueen or bullwinkle and julia.
the revolution will not give your mouth s-x appeal.
the revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
the revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, the revolution will not be televised, brother.
there will be no pictures of you and willie mays
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
nbc will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
on reports from 29 districts.
the revolution will not be televised.
there will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
there will be no pictures of whitney young being
run out of harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
there will be no slow motion or still life of roy
wilkens strolling through watts in a red, black and
green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
for just the right occasion.
green acres, the beverly hillbillies, and hooterville
junction will no longer be so god d-mned relevant, and
women will not care if d-ck finally screwed
jane on search for tomorrow because black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
the revolution will not be televised.
there will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and jackie on-ssis blowing her nose.
the theme song will not be written by jim webb or
francis scott key, nor sung by glen campbell, tom
jones, johnny cash or englebert humperd-nk.
the revolution will not be televised.
the revolution will not be right back
after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
you will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
the revolution will not go better with c-ke.
the revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
the revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.
the revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
the revolution will be no re-run brothers;
the revolution will be live.
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