Revolution - Arrested Development

Brothers and sisters

Let me share with you some news

As I sit on my plush couch

Watching the news

There has been a rude awakening

That I have marched until my feet have bled

And I have rioted until they called the feds

What’s left

My conscience said

What’s left

My conscience said

As I look out my window

I see the little ones

Playing amongst each other

With their waterguns

In pure poverty

Generations of good people

In cycles of poverty

It bothers me, so I ask myself

I say, «Are you doing as much as you can for the struggle?»

(no)

«Am I doing as much as I can for the struggle?

(no)

Then why do I cry when

My people are in trouble (yo)

My ancestors slapped me

In the face and said (go)

Harriet Tubman

Told me to get on up

Marcus Garvey said the negro

You get on up

My brother Malcolm X…

Need I name more?

It ain’t like we never

Seen blood before

Come on, let’s talk

Revolution, now (revolution)

All my people say (revolution)

All my brothers say (revolution)

All my sisters say (revolution)

All my people say (revolution)

Hey (revolution)

All my people say (revolution)

All my people say (revolution)

I see blood on one

Malcolm as one shot em

I see tears cause now it

Seems that we forgot him

I seen years of people

Searching for solutions

Restitution, excuses

No more, no more confusion!

Come on, come on

Let’s talk right, let’s talk right

Talk up, talk up, but

Don’t talk up all night!

There’s got to be action

If you want satisfaction

If not for yourself

For the young ones

(The children)

The U.N., The U. S

We can’t allow you

To tell us a kid in the ghetto

Is not as important as

A kid in Bosnia

I ain’t with it (uh huh)

Just forget it (no)

You can’t even debate

If you don’t understand

Our situation (come on)

You don’t want us to go

Get a gun now, do you?

You don’t like to see

People running around now

Yet and still you wanna

Live like 9-Oh-2−1-Oh

While we scream out

(Yo) freedom

Five grandmothers ago

They erased it

We must acquire a taste for

Something we’ve never tasted

So, people, let us

Wet our palates (word)

It’s either the bullet or the ballot

Come now (whoo)

Revolution now (revolution)

All my people say (revolution)

All my brothers say (revolution)

All my sisters say (revolution)

Hey (revolution)

All my people say (revolution)

Let’s talk about a Revolution

All my people say (revolution)

All my people say

Let’s talk about a revolution

Hey (revolution)

(Revolution) (revolution)

(Revolution) (revolution)…

Now, see, I understand

What my people have said

They tell me to fight

Fight for the ancestors

Who are dead

For Harriet Tubman

Move organization

David Walker

The Black Panthers

Kwame Nkrumah

Marcus Garvey, Jane Pittman

Revolution

(Revolution) (revolution)

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