non sire, c'est une révolution !

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Don't you know
They're talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs
Don't you know you better run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh, I said you better run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run
'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
'Cause finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh

I've been standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution
Yes, finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh, no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh, no
Talkin' 'bout a revolution, oh, no

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We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

A change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again, no, no

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half-alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do you?
Yeah
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are effaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again, no, no
Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

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There's something happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking' their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly saying, "hooray for our side"

It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

We better stop
Now, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

We better stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look - what's going down?

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I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized

and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste in the dust
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound

I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

The power to dream, to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
Listen
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
we have the power

People have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The power to dream, to rule
to wrestle the world from fools

it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
we have the power
People have the power
we have the power...

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And now we got a revolution
'Cause I see the face of things to come
Yeah, your Constitution
Well, my friend, it's gonna have to bend
I'm here to tell you 'bout destruction
Of all the evil that will have to end
(It will, oh, yes, will end
Don'tcha know it's gonna be) All right
(It will end) Well, all right
Well, all right

Some folks are gonna get the notion
I know, they'll say I'm preachin' hate
But if I have to swim the ocean
Well, I would just to communicate
It's not as simple as talkin' jive
The daily struggle just to stay alive
(Alive and well on Earth
Don'tcha know it's gonna be) Well, all right
(Stay alive) Alive and well

Sing about a revolution
Because I'm talkin' 'bout a change
It's more than just air pollution
Well, you know you got to clean your brain
The only way that we can stand, in fact
Is when you get your foot off our back
(Get off our backs, get back
Don'tcha know it's gonna be) All right
(Well, get back) Get back
Well, all right

(What to do) What to do now
(I'm tellin' you) I'm tellin' you
(Soon you'll know) Soon you'll know
(It will be through) Will be through
(1, 2, 3) 1, 2, 3
(What do you see?) What do you see, now?
(4, 5, 6) 4, 5, 6
(I've got my stick) You know I've got my stick
(Do your thing) Do your thing
(Whenever you can) Whenever you can, now
(When you must) When you must, now
(Do take your stand) Take a stand

Well, all right
(It will end) It will end
(Well, all right) Well, all right
(Stay alive) Stay alive
(Well, all right) Well, all right
(Well, get back) Back
(Well, all right) Well, all right
(We'll all know) All right
(Well, all right
Well, all right
Well, all right)

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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 May
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
Or report from 29 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 Wilkens
Strolling through Watts in a red, black and green
Liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion

Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction
Will no longer be so damned 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 Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell
Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink 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

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The revolution will be televised,
you can watch it in HD,
and talk like a weekend warrior,
from the safety of your settee

The graphics won't be as realistic,
as Grand Theft Auto Three,
guess that makes the wheel unwheelable,
but this shit is real baby

Guess you better turn the volume down,
so you can't hear their plea,
suppose you better change the channel,
might put the children off their tea

The revolution will be televised,
you can choose to watch or not,
but if we all just talk from the safety of our sofas,
and there won't be much revolution to watch

I guess you better turn the volume down,
so you can't hear their plea,
suppose you better change the channel,
might put the children off their tea

The revolution, it will be televised,
you can choose to watch or not,
but if you all just talk from the safety of your sofas,
there won't be much revolution to watch
There won't be much of a revolution to watch
Ahhhh, there won't be much of a revolution to watch,
Ahhhh yeah, there won't be much of a revolution to watch

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On the borderline we run
Waiting for the night to come
I looked back and you were gone
I was searching all night long

Fires burning everywhere
People running scared

In no witness
Witness
Witness, I need a witness

Slogans written on a wall
This country's gonna fall
I heard a shot come down the street
And my heart fell to my feet

I don't know where you are
Man, we let it go to far

In no witness
Witness
Witness, I need a witness

In the shadows there's a man
A piece of metal in his hand
Tell me brother is your plan
To keep me here at your command

You say you're for the people now
But it's hard to believe somehow

In no witness
Witness
Witness, I need a witness

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Je suis pour le communisme
Je suis pour le socialisme
Et pour le capitalisme
Parce que je suis opportuniste

Il y en a qui contestent
Qui revendiquent et qui protestent
Moi je ne fais qu'un seul geste
Je retourne ma veste, je retourne ma veste
Toujours du bon côté

Je n'ai pas peur des profiteurs
Ni même des agitateurs
J'fais confiance aux électeurs
Et j'en profite pour faire mon beurre

Il y en a qui contestent
Qui revendiquent et qui protestent
Moi je ne fais qu'un seul geste
Je retourne ma veste, je retourne ma veste
Toujours du bon côté

Je suis de tous les partis
Je suis de toutes les partys
Je suis de toutes les coteries
Je suis le roi des convertis

Il y en a qui contestent
Qui revendiquent et qui protestent
Moi je ne fais qu'un seul geste
Je retourne ma veste, je retourne ma veste
Toujours du bon côté

Je crie vive la révolution
Je crie vive les institutions
Je crie vive les manifestations
Je crie vive la collaboration

Non, jamais je ne conteste
Ni revendique ni ne proteste
Je ne sais faire qu'un seul geste
Celui de retourner ma veste, de retourner ma veste
Toujours du bon côté

Je l'ai tellement retournée
Qu'elle craque de tous côtés
À la prochaine révolution
Je retourne mon pantalon

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Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

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Pour chanter Veni Creator
Il faut une chasuble d'or
Pour chanter Veni Creator
Il faut une chasuble d'or
Nous en tissons pour vous, grands de l'église
Et nous pauvres canuts, n'avons pas de chemise
C'est nous les canuts
Nous sommes tout nus

Pour gouverner, il faut avoir
Manteaux ou rubans en sautoir
Pour gouverner, il faut avoir
Manteaux ou rubans en sautoir
Nous en tissons pour vous grands de la terre
Et nous, pauvres canuts, sans drap on nous enterre
C'est nous les canuts
Nous sommes tout nus

Mais notre règne arrivera
Quand votre règne finira
Mais notre règne arrivera
Quand votre règne finira
Nous tisserons le linceul du vieux monde
Car on entend déjà la révolte qui gronde
C'est nous les canuts
Nous n'irons plus nus

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You say you want a Revolution
Well, you know
We all wanna change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all wanna change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright
Alright
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We are doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright
Alright
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You'd better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright
Alright
Alright, alright
Alright, alright
Alright, alright
Alright, alright

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Revelation, reveals the truth, Revelation
It takes a revolution to make a solution
Too much confusion, so much frustration

I don't want to live in the park
Can't trust no shadows after dark
So my friend I wish that you could see
Like a bird in the tree, the prisoners must be free
Never make a politician grant you a favour
They will always want to control you forever

So if a fire make it burn
And if a blood make it run
Rasta there up on top, can't you see

So you can't predict the flop
We got lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire
Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire

Kill, cramp and paralyse all weak at conception
Wipe them out of creation
Let l'es is l'es in l'es is black
In l'es is red in l'es is dread
Let rightousness cover the earth
Like the water cover the sea

Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire
Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire

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On se réveille un jour de gloire
Parmi des choses, parmi des gens
Et si c'est la cour des miracles
C'est en l'apprenant qu'on l'apprend
Elle, elle est seule, elle est naïve
Le monde est tendre et différent
La mer est calme, on part à l'aventure
Pour le meilleur et pour le pire

Voilà le printemps qui se lève
Il en faut vingt pour l'achèvement
Lune et dollars, matraque et rêves
La matraque, c'est ce qui prend plus longtemps
On fait la croix sur ce qui reste
La croix de guerre, évidemment
Ensemble, il faudra vaincre, ou bien subir
Tout le meilleur et tout le pire

Et puis voilà le soir qui tombe
Après deux heures, après cent ans
C'est une question sans importance
Ce n'est qu'une question de temps
Allons enfant de la Patrie
Allons gaiement vers le destin
Survivre un peu
Apprendre un peu
Sourire un peu
Aimer un peu
Souffrir un peu
Mourir un peu
Pour rien

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Paranoia is in bloom
The PR transmissions will resume
They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down
And hope that we will never see the truth around
(So come on)
Another promise, another scene
Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed
And all the green belts wrapped around our minds
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined
(So come on)

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
(So come on)

Interchanging mind control
Come, let the revolution take its toll
If you could flick the switch and open your third eye
You'd see that we should never be afraid to die
(So come on)

Rise up and take the power back
It's time the fat cats had a heart attack
You know that their time's coming to an end
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend
(So come on)

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
(So come on)

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
(So come on)

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(Revolution) (revolution)
(Revolution) (revolution).....
Brothers and sisters
Let me share with you some news
As I sit on my plush couch
Watching the news
There has been a rude awakening
That I have marched until my feet have bled
And I have rioted until they called the feds

What's left
My conscience said
What's left
My conscience said
As I look out my window
I see the little ones
Playing amongst each other
With their waterguns

In pure poverty
Generations of good people
In cycles of poverty
It bothers me, so I ask myself
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I say, "Are you doing as much as you can for the struggle?" (no)
"Am I doing as much as I can for the struggle? (no)

Then why do I cry when
My people are in trouble (yo)
My ancestors slapped me
In the face and said (go)
Harriet Tubman
Told me to get on up
Marcus Garvey said the Negro
You get on up
My brother Malcolm X...
Need I name more?
It ain't like we never
Seen blood before

Come on, let's talk
Revolution, now (revolution)
All my people say (revolution)
All my brothers say (revolution)
All my sisters say (revolution)
All my people say (revolution)
Hey (revolution)
All my people say (revolution)
All my people say (revolution)
I see blood on one
Malcolm as one shot em
I see tears cause now it
Seems that we forgot him

I seen years of people
Searching for solutions
Restitution, excuses
No more, no more confusion!
Come on, come on
Let's talk right, let's talk right
Talk up, talk up, but
Don't talk up all night!
There's got to be action
If you want satisfaction
If not for yourself
For the young ones
(The children)

The U.N., The U.S
We can't allow you
To tell us a kid in the ghetto
Is not as important as
A kid in Bosnia
I ain't with it (uh huh)
Just forget it (no)
You can't even debate
If you don't understand
Our situation (come on)

You don't want us to go
Get a gun now, do you?
You don't like to see
People running around now
Yet and still you wanna
Live like 9-Oh-2-1-Oh
While we scream out
(Yo) freedom
Five grandmothers ago
They erased it
We must acquire a taste for
Something we've never tasted
So, people, let us
Wet our palates (word)
It's either the bullet or the ballot
Come now (whoo)

Revolution now (revolution)
All my people say (revolution)
All my brothers say (revolution)
All my sisters say (revolution)
Hey (revolution)
All my people say (revolution)
Let's talk about a Revolution
All my people say

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When the revolution comes
(When the revolution comes)
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
Some of us will probably catch it on TV with chicken hanging from our mouths
You'll know it's revolution because there won't be no commercials
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
(When the revolution comes)
Preacher pimps are gonna split the scene with the communion wine stuck in their back pockets
Faggots won't be so funny then and all the junkies will quit their nodding and wake up
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
Transit cops will be crushed by the trains after losing their guns and blood will run through the streets of Harlem drowning anything without substance
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
(When the revolution comes)
I hope pearly white teeth fall of the mouths that speak of revolution without reverence
The cost of revolution is 360 degrees, understand the cycle that never ends
Understand the beginning to be the end and nothing is in between but space and time that I make, or you make, to relate, or not to relate, to the world outside my mind, your mind
Speak not of revolution until you are willing to eat rats to survive
When the revolution comes
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[Verse 5]
(When the revolution comes)
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
Guns and rifles will be taking the place of poems and essays
Black cultural centers will be forts supplying the revolutionaries with food and arms
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
White death will froth the walls of museums and churches breaking the lie that enslaved our mothers
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
Jesus Christ is gonna be standing on the corner of Lennox Avenue and 125th St trying to catch the first gypsy cab out of Harlem
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
Jew merchants will give away matzoh balls and gefilte fish to anyone they see with an afro
Frank Schiffman will give away the Apollo to the first person he sees wearing a blue dashiki
When the revolution comes
(When the revolution comes)
Afros gon' be trying to straighten their heads and straightened heads gon' be trying to wear afros
When the revolution comes
[Verse 10]
When the revolution comes
When the revolution comes
(When the revolution comes)
But until then, you know and I know niggas will party and bulls