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Here's some food for your thought:

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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,
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 interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of the White House blowing a bugle and leading a charge by George W. Bush, Tom Delay and the Christian Evangelicals to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by Microsoft and will not star Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher or Spongebob Squarepants and Mickey Mouse.
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 May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that flat-screen television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC, FOX, MSNBC or CNN will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 or report 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 pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of a Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of a Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

American Idol, Desparate Housewives, and Survivor will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because 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. The theme song will not be written by Jessica Simpson or Justin Timberlake, nor sung by Green Day, Blink 182, Eminem, Kelley Clarkson, or U2.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
about a white tornado, white lightning, or the White House. You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or a terrorist in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the 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.

==Gil Scott-Heron
(with revisions by me)


Police state sentinel.