When the Revolution Comes-The Last Poets

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[00:00.00]When the Revolution Comes - The Last Poets
[00:00.88]Written by：Abiodun Oyewole
[00:01.77]When the revolution comes
[00:03.62]When the revolution comes
[00:05.24]When the revolution comes
[00:07.72]When the revolution comes some of us will probably catch it on TV
[00:10.76]with chicken hanging from our mouths you'll know its revolution
[00:14.24]Cause there won't be no commercials
[00:16.66]When the revolution comes
[00:18.64]When the revolution comes
[00:19.96]When the revolution comes
[00:21.09]Preacher pimps are gonna split the scene with
[00:22.73]The communion wine stuck in their back pockets
[00:25.08]Faggots won't be so funny then and all the junkies will quit
[00:28.31]Their nodding and wake up when the revolution comes
[00:31.29]When the revolution comes
[00:32.56]Transit cops will be crushed by the trains after losing their guns
[00:36.37]And blood will run through the streets of Harlem drowning anything without substance
[00:40.33]When the revolution comes
[00:42.10]When the revolution comes
[00:43.63]When the revolution comes
[00:45.00]When the revolution comes
[00:46.25]Our pearly white teeth froth the mouths that speak of revolution without reverence
[00:50.24]The cost of revolution is 360 degrees understand the cycle that never ends
[00:55.72]Understand the beginning to be the end and nothing is in between but space and
[00:59.98]Time that I make or you make to relate or not to
[01:03.00]Relate to the world outside
[01:04.38]My mind your mind speak not of revolution
[01:07.71]Until you are willing to eat rats to survive
[01:10.42]When the revolution comes
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[01:13.82]When the revolution comes
[01:15.57]When the revolution comes guns and rifles will be taking the place of poems
[01:18.97]And essays black cultural centers will forts supplying the revolutionaries
[01:23.25]With food and arms when the revolution comes
[01:26.00]When the revolution comes
[01:27.61]White death will froth the walls of museums and churches breaking the lies
[01:31.34]That enslaved our mothers when the revolution comes
[01:34.10]When the revolution comes
[01:35.28]Jesus Christ is gonna be standing on the corner of
[01:37.72]Lennox ave and 125th st
[01:39.87]Trying to catch the first gypsy cab out of Harlem when the revolution comes
[01:44.25]When the revolution comes
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[01:46.56]Jew merchants will give away motzah balls and gifilte fish to anyone
[01:49.20]They see with afros Frank Shieffin will give away the Apollo to
[01:52.93]The first person he sees wearing a blue dashiki
[01:55.57]When the revolution comes
[01:57.00]When the revolution comes afros gone be trying to straighten their heads
[02:00.69]And straightened heads gone be trying to wear afros
[02:03.26]When the revolution comes
[02:04.86]When the revolution comes
[02:06.57]When the revolution comes
[02:07.81]When the revolution comes
[02:08.82]But until then you know and I know niggers will party and bullsh*t
[02:13.97]And party and bullsh*t and party and bullsh*t and party and bullsh*t and party
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[02:22.78]Some might even die before the revolution comes