THE REVOLUTION

BY JAY WELLER

 

BROKE FROM THE CHAINS OF THE KING’S GLUTTONY

THE FOUNDERS DECLARED THAT ALL MEN SHALL BE FREE

HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS WITHOUT CUSTODY

AND THEIR LEADERS SHALL SERVE WITH FULL DIGNITY

 

JUST READ THE CONSTITUTION

 

HIGH OFFICES HELD BY MEN BOUGHT AND SOLD

FOR POWER, FOR STATUS, FOR TRINKETS AND GOLD

WHO PAY BACK THEIR MASTERS OVER TEN THOUSAND FOLD

THEN BEND DOWN IN CHAMBERS FOR THE COCK BIG AND COLD

 

AND OTHER FORMS OF PROSTITUTION

 

SO SINNERS THEY CROWD AND LIARS THEY WAIT

AND EAGERLY PAY FOR TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR PLATES

THE PROBLEM WITH KANSAS IS MORE THAN ONE STATE

TO CONQUER A PEOPLE YOU MUST FIRST SEPARATE

 

BREAK LOOSE FROM THOSE ILLUSIONS

 

THE POETS IN SLUMBER WILL NOW SCRIBE WITH THEIR PENS

THAT ALL THINGS MUST DIE, TO BE BORN AGAIN

THAT THE TYRANTS’ TIGHT BINDS WILL BUCKLE AND BEND

AND BY THE HIGH TOWERS, ROSES WILL SPRING FROM THE GLEN

 

IT’S A NATURAL EVOLUTION

 

SO PICK UP AN AX AND SHARPEN THOSE STONES

BONES, THRONE

WITH CELLULAR PHONES

ITS TIME FOR REVOLUTION

 

SO LIGHT UP THOSE TORCHES, BURN THE SNAKES IN THEIR CAVES

GRAVE

ENGRAVE

NOW HEED THE REVOLUTION

 

FROM THE COLD STREETS, A GLORIOUS SPRING

A BILLION FISTS POUNDING ON THE DOORS OF THEIR KINGS

FROM CAIRO, DEMASCUS AND ON TO BEIJING

THOSE CHAINS FOREVER LOOSENED

 

ACROSS ALL THE LANDS, THE BELLS HAVE BEEN RUNG

CITIES ARE SWARMING WITH THE BOLD AND THE YOUNG

LIKE A THREE HEADED BEAST SPEAKING FIVE TONGUES

ALL MADNESS AND CONFUSION

 

THAT ENDS IN A WIMPER, USUALLY STARTS WITH A BANG

HEROES AND MARTYRS ARE THE FIRST TO BE SLAIN

IF THEY TEAR DOWN YOUR HOME, YOU MUST BUILD IT AGAIN

ITS ABOUT PLANNING AND COLLUSION

 

SO PICK UP AN AX AND SHARPEN THOSE STONES

STRIKE DOWN THE STAFF AND SOUND THOSE TROMBONES

VIDEO PHONES

COMMENCE THE REVOLUTION

 

SO LIGHT UP THE TORCHES, BURN THE SNAKES IN THEIR CAVES

GRAVE, GAVE

ENGRAVE

NOW HEED THE REVOLUTION

FROM THE EARTH’S HOLLOWS AN OMINOUS GROAN

A FAINT DISTANT RUMBLE THAT RISE AND EXPLODE

THE GREATEST SINS GRINDING GOD’S PERFECT ABODE

ARE LIES, GREED, AND POLLUTION

 

BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF ICE MELTING DOWN

A MILLION DRY ACRES WILL OVERTAKE FERTILE GROUND

MANY BILLION MORE BODIES WILL BE DELIVERED EARTHBOUND

ALL CONNECTED IN SOLUTIONS

 

ALL IS CLEANED BY THE LIGHT, FIND THE TRUTH THAT YOU CRAVE

SUMMON THE STRENGTH TO BE HOPEFUL AND BRAVE

THEN NOTHING WILL HALT THIS UNSTOPPABLE WAVE

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION