2019-05-31

"REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED" by Gil Scott-Heron, 1970

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 4 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 Mendel Rivers 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 reports 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 Whitney Young being run out of Harlem on a rail with 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 proper occasion.

The revolution will not be televised.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Hooterville Junction will no longer be so goddamned relevant

And women will not care if Dick finally screwed 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 or Englebert Humperdink

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, a tiger in your tank, or the giant 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.

  • 革命はテレビには映らない! テレビは喜劇しか映さないからね!

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