Revolution

I'm just trying to create something original something great

That will stand the test of the hand of fate

That will send the message before its too late

Of peace, and a life worth living

What stands to reason is a life of giving

And being forgiven for all my screw-ups

From bad to bust, I think the past just threw-up

On my present—so its time I grew-up

I hate fruitless fighting when the flame spreads across

Until its holocaust, holla if you're lost

It's all about the boss, we gotta take a stand

Truth glides through my fingers like a slippery sand

It's hard to change the land when opposition is banned

And beauty is canned, it's like candy

We got Miller Lite instead of brandy

And-he says that it's all fine and dandy

Cuz you're afraid of Rameses, afraid to be Ghandi

We are all a little bit pansy.

I'm sinking right in to this perilous couch

With my eyes glazed over and my shoulders slouched

And Check this: I'm running out of Chex Mix

So I savour each bite like its Christmas

If you think watching the news will make you turn off the snooze

then you gotta stop drinking the government's booze.

When you let the TV put your mind on cruise control

then you lose control

Let corporations take what they choose: your soul.

When you see what it cost, all that you lost

Will you take the path walked like Robert Frost

Don't be tossed around, take the overgrown road

Get on your soles, lift your overblown load

Of knowledge--you can't buy that here,

So let's raise the sword to face the fear

Raise the pen to race the darkness

as it erases, gazes turn heartless.

Face this maze, don't be a living carcass

There's still a spirit of life that can spark this

change, don't save it for tomorrow, cuz mark this:

There's no day like today to say what you gotta say

I have to keep smiling or I'll cry every day

I have to keep moving or I sink into the clay

If we walk on, we're proving, we will find a way

not to lay on that apathetic couch in dismay

We won't crumble away. We won't tatter or fray

We'll choose the right battle and on that ground stay

rooted. As there are many more recruited

You can't compute it. we will not be muted!