Arrested Development - Revolution (HQ)

Arrested Development - Revolution.
From the Soundtrack - Malcolm X. (1992)
(in HQ sound)

Lyrics:


[Intro]
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 have rioted until they called the Feds
What's left my conscience said?
What's left my conscience said? GO!

[Speech]
As I look out my window I can see the little ones
Playing amongst each other with the water guns
In pure poverty
Generations of good people in cycles of poverty
It bothers me so I ask myself (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 to me, bro, you get on up!
My brother malcolm X, need I say more
It ain't like we've never seen blood before,
Come on, let's talk Revolution, now!

[Chorus]
(Oh, my people say, oh my brothers say, oh my sisters say, HEY! Oh, my people
say/ come on let's talk about a Re-volution)

[Speech]
I seen blood on one Malcolm as one shot him
I see tears, because now it seems we've forgot him
I've seen years of people struggling for a solution
Like restitution; excuses, no more no more confusion
Come on, come on, let's talk right
Talk up talk up, but don't talk up up all night
There's got to be action if you want satisfaction
If not for yourself, for the young ones (the children!)
The US, the UN, we can't allow ya—
to tellustthe kidinthegetto isnotasimportantasthiskidin Bosnia [sic]
I ain't with it; just forget it
We can't even debate if you don't understand our situation
You don't want us to go get a gun now
You don't like to see people runnin' around now, do ya?
Yet and still you want to live like '90210', while we scream out "Yo FREEDOM"!
My grandmother has a goal we have wasted
You best acquire a taste for somethin' you never tasted
So people, let us wear our pallets
it's either the bullet or the ballot; come now

[Chorus]
Revolution now, (repeat chorus)

[Outro]
Now see, I understand what my people have said
They tell me to FIGHT— fight for the answers to our dead
For Harriet Tubman, MOVE organization, David Walker, the Black Panthers
Kwame and Kuma, Marcus Garvey, Jane Pitman
Revolution!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• arrested development
• revolution
• malcolm x
• rap
• hip hop
• old school
• 90's

[TheArtistWill]

In 2009 let's talk about revolution!

[ecwest923]

I love this Song!

[ravenscry69]

Danzel Washington looks exactly like Malcom X

[MrQadir88]

@ecwest923 Me too, REVOLUTION

[drumsticksNnunchakus]

@odoss80

So sad...yet so TRUE...

[odoss80]

@bristolcityifcation I wish this were the case. Unfortunately, it will always be a black/white issue in America. The majority of white Americans hold true to the so called title "the slave master's children". White America will never see black America as anything equal to themselves. Most blacks in this country believe the lie that its not about race anymore, so they've fallen asleep. It shouldn't be about race, but in the US it will aways be like this.

[ThePocahontas225]

@bristolcityifcation Amen

[hurricanesofhell]

@uu55u5 2012: The End of The World as well as a New Year of Revolutions.

[bristolcityifcation]

in this time it aint a black or white thing its a rich or poor thing !! i served in the brit army with the us and made many friends be they white black yellow brown or red i dont give a fuck when we was in country u know the common dinnomamater was we bled red together !! and thats that now im back home and all the fools from different colors are battling each other !! what the fuck thats all about ? my enemy is not the man with the different color but the rotten stystem ! peace my brothers !!

[FairLady822]

19 yrs later, and this joint is still bangin'.

[thelivingpoet]

denzel looks hadsome in this picture

[thelivingpoet]

@ecwest923 me too. a classic