The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Lyrics

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised lyrics

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised  --  Gil Scott Heron (1975)



You will not be able to stay home brother 

you will not be able to plug in, turn on and drop out 

you will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip 

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 interruption 

The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon 

blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John 

Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat 

hog moss 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 

Wood and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia 

The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal 

The revolution will not get rid of the nubs 

The revolution will not make you look five pounds 

thinner because The revolution will not be televised brother 

There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays 

pushing that cart down the block on the 

dead run 

or trying to slide that color television into a stolen 

ambulance 

NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8:32 

or the count 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 young being 

run out of Harlem 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 damned relevant and 

women will not care of Dick finally gets down with 

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 Onassis blowing her nose 

The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb, 

Francis Scott Key nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom 

Jones, Johnny Cash, Engelbert Humperdinck of The 

Rare Earth 

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 germ in your 

bedroom, the tiger in your tank, or the giant in you 

toilet bowl 

The revolution will not go better with Coke 

The revolution will not fight germs that can cause 

bad breath 

The revolution WILL put you in the driver's 

seat 

The revolution will not be televised, will no be televised 

will not be televised 

The revolution will be no re-run brothers 

The revolution will be live--

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