Dan Bern True Revolutionaries Lyrics

True Revolutionaries Lyrics

look mom
they're gonna fry tim mcvay
she said 'the nice guy who's on the
cover of all those magazines?
why would they want to do a thing like
that?'
I said cause he killed all those people
in oklahoma city
she
said nonsense
people don't kill people..
carbombs kill people.
I said
well yea mom but they gotta do something with him
she said why don't they
just get mike tyson 
to bite off both his ears
and I said

true
revolutionaries
never bomb buildings.
true revolutionaries
never bomb
buildings.
it attracts too much attention
they never bomb
buildings

a little girl down my block was born 
with siliconin her
breasts
it turned out her grandma and her mother
both had the implants
done well
evolution took care of it this time around
and I wondered what
it is about
so many women with big breasts
make it look so sad and I
thought well
maybe it has something to do with the weight 
the burden
there is to carry in the world 
to have to feed it
to be the object of
its desires and
I wondered what burdens the rest of us
are carrying all
the time.

I couldn't help thinking
true revolutionaries
never bomb
buildings.
it attracts too much attention
they never bomb
buildings

I decided to go for a walk
and not do nothing except look
everyone I see in the eyes
and not be the first one to avert my eyes
no
matter what
and I was planning to be gone for 10 minutes
but things
started happening and I didn't return for two years
by which time I was the
heavyweight champion of the world
and the expectant father of 16
children
by 13 different women

I was in a fishing village in the
coast of spain
it was our lady of abortions sunday afternoon
all the
pregnant women in their first trimester
were filing before the priest
to
receive their blessing of
try again sometime, try again.
the old barber
had died his hair green for the occasion
and pierced his nipples and 
was
riding his skateboard to the statue
of conan o'brien
where he was doing
backflips for the kids
who threw coins
given to them by their
parents

the visiting lecturer 
achingly handsome
just finished
giving a 
how to build bombs in your basement 
seminar in the park
all
the young girls put away their 
notebooks dreamily
the chimpanzee who had
managed to
type out hamlet three years before
was sitting in the third
floor office of a 
drivers license building
typing out zoning
ordinances
typing out learners permits
bored and lonely

pee wee
herman was sitting in the 
central square on the grass
naked and
masturbating
while all the townspeople moved to him
slowly and kissed him
softly and sung him 
lullabyes in the grass 
and in burkley and in
greenwhich village
and in paris and scottsbluff nebraska
no one sits
around in funky little coffee shops
anymore talking about revolution
no
they get a starbucks to go
and they go back to their basketball
games
where they see who can jump higher 
who can jam
who can take it
to the rafts
and they all wear baseball caps 
except they don't say
yankees or dodgers
they say nike, reebok, adidas
cause the pro players
don't play for teams anymore
they play for shoe companies
and the kids
aren't fooled
nah they're just biding their time
waiting for the
millenium to come
when all the computers will crash
cause all the
brilliant scientists of the world
forgot to make them
read
zeros

true revolutionaries
never bomb buildings.
true
revolutionaries
never bomb buildings.
it attracts too much
attention
they never bomb buildings

now sitting there with a head
full of dark thoughts
like I sometimes get
suddenly everything cleared

and I realized the only purpose
for revolution is to be able to
love
who you want
how you want
when you want and
where you
want
so I took off all my clothes
stole a boat and road out to the middle
of the lake
and jumped in
and I looked back at you
and said come
on!
get wet!

true revolutionaries
never bomb buildings.
true
revolutionaries
never bomb buildings.
it attracts too much
attention
they never bomb buildings
they never bomb buildings
they
never bomb buildings.