A Hungarian revolutionary commands respect in Budapest. The streets were littered with the bodies of the hated secret police.
The revolution will not be televised - Gil Scott-Heron
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,
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 Bush blowing a bugle and leading a charge by Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Condi Rice to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Fox News and will not star Gwyneth Paltrow and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia Roberts.
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 ten pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, sister.
There will be no pictures of you and Mike Tyson pushing that shopping cart down the block on a dead run,
or trying to slide that color television 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 in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of James Ukrops being run out of Richmond on a rail, tarred and feathered.
There will be no slow motion or still life of King Salim Khalfani strolling through Jackson Ward in a Red, Black and Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Desperate Housewives, Lost, Smallville, and The OC will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with Jane on Search for Tomorrow because people of all colors 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 Barbra Streisand blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Keys, William Hung, J-Lo, or Weird Al Yankovic.
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.
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