A TRIBUTE TO GIL SCOTT HERON
The Revolution will be Televised
You will be given two days off of work to celebrate
You will be able to layback,
Play Call of Duty,
And practice yoga
You will be able to lose your self at Burning Man
Find your self at the Joshua Tree
And post it all on The Gram
Because the revolution Will be televised
The revolution Will be televised
The revolution will be brought to you by Google,
Apple, and Pabst Blue Ribbon
The revolution will have a president
You Voted
either for or against
Sending tweets antagonizing football players
Born in a town with lead in the water
The revolution will be televised
Banksy, Dr. Cornel West,
And confused people burning cars in France
Will get their time in front of a camera
The revolution will be televised
The revolution will be delivered to you
By Amazon through your local Wholefoods
It will star Busy Phillips, Rashida Jones,
And Fabio
And be produced by Judd Apatow
It will let you taste the rainbow,
Smile for a selfie,
And feel like your Facebook avatar has always dreamed
The revolution will be televised
There will be Snapchats and Vines of regular people
with Bill Murray
doing dishes at a frat house
And Casey Gerald giving powerful speeches at TED
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and
Bernie Sanders
will be guests on late night talk shows
where live audiences are prompted to applaud
From comfortable seats
CNN and Fox News will compete
to perfectly cover the
Moment to moment of every participant in the revolution
Because the revolution will be televised
There will be pictures of cops beating, choking, and shooting
Brothers, on constant replay
There will be video – live video – of brothers who cannot breathe
Broadcast on constant replay
There will oscar winning movies showing
Detailed hardship of black history
And, also, triumph in Wakanda
No one needs to host the revolution
It will Still be televised
Blackish, Glee, Modern Family,
Sense 8 and Orange is the New Black will be
On every channel and all too relevant
Because marginalized groups are walking in the streets
Fully represented,
And not looking for a brighter day
The revolution will be televised
There will be commentary
On the 11 o’clock news
There will be clips of Melania Trump
And her controversial coat
The theme song will be written by
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga
And sung by Billie Eilish, Marilyn Manson
Damian Marley
And Immortal Technique
The revolution will be televised
The revolution will be accessible through Alexa and Siri,
On sale at Walmart
En route via Bitesquad
And sent up into space in a Tesla
You will not have to worry about an alligator in your bedroom,
A shark in your tank
or the chain in your toilet bowl
The revolution will come with a coupon for a Pepsi
It will wear Crest Whitestips,
and it will call you an Uber
The revolution will be televised
will be televised
Will. Be. Televised
There will always be a chance to see it again
or later for the very first time
on your DVR
The revolution is alive
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