Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution will not be Televised.
\ And because many have not heard, or have forgotten…
\ You will not be able to stay home, brother
\ You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
\ You will not be able to lose yourself on skag
\ And 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 four parts without commercial interruptions
\ 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 maws 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 Woods 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 Mae
\ Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run
\ Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance
\ NBC will not be able predict the winner
\ At 8:32 on report from twenty-nine districts
\ The revolution will not be televised
\ There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
\ There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
\ There will be no pictures of Whitney Young
\ Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
\ There will be no slow motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkins
\ Strolling through Watts in a red, black, and green liberation jumpsuit
\ That he has been saving for just the proper occasion
\ Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction
\ Will no longer be so damn relevant
\ And women will not care if Dick finally got 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 or Francis Scott Keys
\ Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash
\ Engelbert Humperdinck, or 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 dove in your bedroom
\ The tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl
\ The revolution will not go better with Coke
\ The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath
\ The revolution will put you in the driver's seat
\ The revolution will not be televised
\ Will not be televised
\ Will not be televised
\ Will not be televised
\ The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
\ The revolution will be live.