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You will not be able to stay home, brother. |
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You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. |
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You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and |
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skip out for beer during commercials, |
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Because the revolution will not be televised. |
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The revolution will not be televised. |
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The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox |
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In 4 parts without commercial interruptions. |
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The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon |
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blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John |
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Mitchell, General Abrams and Mendel Rivers to eat |
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hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary. |
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The revolution will not be televised. |
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The revolution will not be brought to you by the |
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Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie |
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Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia. |
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The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal. |
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The revolution will not get rid of the nubs. |
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The revolution will not make you look five pounds |
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thinner, the revolution will not be televised, Brother. |
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There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays |
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pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, |
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or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance. |
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NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 |
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on reports from 29 districts. |
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The revolution will not be televised. |
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There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down |
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brothers in the instant replay. |
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There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being |
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run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process. |
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There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy |
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Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and |
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Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving |
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For just the right occasion. |
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Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville |
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Junction will no longer be so god damned relevant, and |
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women will not care if Dick finally screwed |
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Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people |
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will be in the street looking for a brighter day. |
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The revolution will not be televised. |
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There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock |
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news and no pictures of hairy armed women |
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liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose. |
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The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or |
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Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom |
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Jones, Johnny Cash or Englebert Humperdink. |
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The revolution will not be televised. |
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The revolution will not be right back |
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after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people. |
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You will not have to worry about a dove in your |
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bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl. |
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The revolution will not go better with Coke. |
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The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. |
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The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. |
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The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, |
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will not be televised, will not be televised. |
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The revolution will be no re-run brothers; |
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The revolution will be live. |