2012년 4월 7일 토요일

"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 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 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 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 Whitney Young being  run out of Harlem on a rail with a 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.  Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville   Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and 
women will not care if Dick finally gets 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,  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, 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.                                 (sing365) 


The song appears in the 1999 Denzel Washington and Norman Jewison film The Hurricane and on its soundtrack.  In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the “Top 20 Political Songs”.         
Packed with powerful, poetic and instantly re-appropriated sound bites, “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” was quickly absorbed into the fabric of our language via political slogans, headlines, advertising campaigns .                                                                                              

                   

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