R E V O L U T I O N
Lennon & Wys
you say you want a revolution
well, you know
we all want to change the world
you tell me that it’s evolution
well, you know
we all want to change the world
but when you talk about destruction
don’t you know that you can count me out?
don’t you know it’s gonna be
all right...
you say you got a real solution
well, you know
we’d all love to see the plan
you ask me for a contribution
well, you know
we all doing what we can
but if you want money for people with minds that hate
all i can tell you is, brother, you have to wait
don’t you know it’s gonna be
all right...
you say you’ll change the constItution
well, you know
we all want to change your head
you tell me it’s the inst*tution
well, you know
you’d better free your mind instead
but if you go carrying pictures of chairman mao
you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow
don’t you know it’s gonna be
all right...
Revolution the Beatles b side of hey jude. lyrics by john lennon, 1968
Patstoral from chad wys' american tapestry, 2012, here
Brava! xoxo Mary
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and so apropos. For the first time in my life.......I am scared. Truly. About our country. Seriously scared.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful song....and it says it all. Prescient. Isn't it?
Somehow...there is only ONE voice that is sound and clear, though for now it's clarion call is dulled by one very loud carnival barker under the Big Top and another who espouses the word he spews...REVOLUTION...both very dangerous, both seeking a legacy for their ego. Who is this ONE voice, a woman called Hillary. She is reviled, cursed upon, ridiculed, and for what...millions spent in Republican Senate hearings and probes over the course of decades...why? A generation or two have been raised to believe she is corrupt and a liar...why? Does anyone even know? I say it goes back to when she was appointed to a council, the very first council of its kind in USA history, a council comprised of the most brilliant legal minds of its time, A council to create the Articles of Impeachment of Nixon. They since have never let up on her, accuse her of murder, graft, deceit, and then they did the same to her husband, the President, for a personal indiscretion that is meant to be private between a married couple...they took it public, to the world stage, making the USA a laughing stock of puritanical lunacy, the Repbulican Senate brought an Impeachment. Oddly, all who brought this forward, Hastert, Gingrich, Starr...have all fallen from grace with scandals of sex. So whose voice is that of Order in a time of Chaos? Who stands for rebuilding America to be what SHE was once, The Land of Dreams & Freedom? Of the three running, whose vision is that of Justice, not financial Tyranny nor social Revolution? A Woman's. It's now time, 240 years from the founding of our country's ideology, 224 years of men running the White House, for a Woman President.
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