Revolutionary

© Glen B Powell 1985

From the album ‘Burn’ by Quick and the Dead (1996)

(Filmed on phone by Elizabeth Warren).

My mother and father bought me up to be

A productive member of society

They said be whatever you want to be

I said I want to be revolutionary

We’re living in such a decadent age

You know we looked for freedom we found a cage

Locked ourselves in threw away the key

That’s why I want to be revolutionary

That’s all I want to be…

I want to be revolutionary

Now this old world is falling down

Its foundations crumble all around

And the only hope for humanity

We’ve all got to be revolutionary

That’s all I want to be

I said I want to be revolutionary

No one ever changed the world by being too afraid to try

No one said it would be easy to be mocked and crucified

You’re a traitor and a saviour to your planet and your race

Let’s pull this whole world down and build a new one in its place.

That’s all I want to be

I said I want to be revolutionary

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