THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION.
I HEAR THE SOUNDS OF THOSE ANCESTRAL VOICES WHISPERING "REVOLUTION".
TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION AS SLAVE OWNERS WOULD WISE-CRACK AND SLING ROPES ACROSS BACKS TRYING TO GET OUR PEOPLE TO REVERT BACK TO A SO CALLED "CIVILIZATION".
CIVILIZED AINT THE WORD TO AMPLIFY AMONGST WE BLACK FOLKS.
[COLORED FOLKS], PLASTERING THESE COLORS OF OUR FACES ACROSS THIS NATION.
RED, BLACK, YELLOW.
MIX IT ALL TOGETHER.
DOES THAT BE THE NEW COLOR OF OUR FREEDOM FLAG?
OR DOES THAT BE THE COLOR OF OUR BLOOD?
DRIP DROPPING OUT ONTO THEIR SILVER SPOONS AS THEY WOULD TAKE IT LIKE DOSAGES.
MEDICATION FOR THEIR ILLNESS.
PRESCRIPTION MED CALLED ANTI-NIGGA.
YES, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION AS THEY WERE BEING HUNG FROM TREES AND MARCHING TO DEATH SIRENS SO IT SEEMS AND I INVISION THE VISION MY ANCESTORS ONCE DREAMED.
AND I HEAR THESE CONFUSED PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT THAT BE ABOUT AND I TELL THEM IT BE ABOUT A REVOLUTION.
AND I TELL THEM GOD GIVES VISIONS NOT FOR US JUST TO SEE THEM BUT FOR US TO BE THEM SO WE NEED TO BE THAT REVOLUTION.
AND I PRAY THAT BEYOND THE PERSON WE CLAIM TO BE AND BEYOND THE DREAMS OUR EYES FORESEE, I PRAY THIS REVOLUTION SETS US FREE OR MAYBE BRING HEAVEN A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO YOU AND ME.
I SWEAR THEY WERE NOT PLAYING WHEN THEY SAID WE'D BE SLAVES FOR ONGOING CENTURIES.
THE CHAINS ARE STILL DRAGGING AND BAGS ARE GETTING HEAVIER.
LIKE OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S LOAD IS NOT MEANT TO BE LIGHTER AND TO BE BORN INTO A NATION THAT WOULD SECURE THEIR FUTURE TO BE MUCH BRIGHTER.
I SORROW FOR THIS GENERATION THAT GIVES INTO SELF-DESTRUCTION LIKE WE HAVEN'T ALREADY SUFFERED FROM THIS MORAL CORRUPTION.
MORALLY DEAD AND SPIRITUALLY WOUNDED.
THAT ANCESTOR FIRE HAS NOT BEEN DEEPLY ROOTED.
WE DON'T HAVE THE HEARTS OF THEM FIELD WORKING MOMMAS.
THEM BENT OVER BACKWARDS TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION MOMMAS.
YES, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT A REVOLUTION.
WE NEED TO BE ABOUT THAT REVOLUTION.
WE NEED TO BE THAT REVOLUTION.
BRING ALIVE THAT REVOLUTION.
BECAUSE THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT A [REVOLUTION].