If you want a revolution you gotta be willing
To fall to an unwritten death
If you want a revolution you have to be ready
To scream your own manifest
Oh the energy you waste on this comforting trivia
And a thousand tattered cartoons
Won't help your slow and painful death
Teach anyone anything new
Your loss is as useless as boy hero rifleman
Strutting his filthy convictions
Your life was as wasted as boy hero rifleman's
Targets, history's victims
The revolution will not be interrupting this game
Or any other baseball that's on
The revolution won't cancel this festival
Or stop us from going to Con
(chorus)
No the gathering will not be pre-empted by
Any revolution you'd organize
And our football will not be be disrupted by any
Fools with stars in their eyes
If you want a revolution you gotta be fighting
Not down on your knees to pray
If you want a revolution you're gonna be dying
But for what, no one will say
(chorus)
There will be no revolution
There'll be no revolution today
