Forum Post: Beatles Revolution Lyrics...
Posted 12 years ago on April 5, 2012, 7:19 a.m. EST by toonces
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Seems to me the Beatles/John Lennon would not be supporting OWS.
You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out Don't you know it's gonna be all right All right, all right
You say you got a real solution Well, you know We'd all love to see the plan You ask me for a contribution Well, you know We're doing what we can But when you want money For people with minds that hate All I can tell is brother you have to wait Don't you know it's gonna be all right All right, all right Ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
You say you'll change the constitution Well, you know We all want to change your head You tell me it's the institution Well, you know You better free you mind instead But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow Don't you know it's gonna be all right
You say you want a re-vol-u-tion
Well,... you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's e-vol-u-tion
Well,.... you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be..... all right
All right,..... all right
You say you got a real sol-u-tion
Well,... you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a con-tri-bu-tion
Well,.... you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother
You have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right All right, all right Ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
You say you'll change the con-sti-tu-tion
Well,.... you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the ins-tit-u-tion
Well,.... you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chair-man Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone, any-how
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
Just making it easier to read, I think it’s good advice to free your mind.
Lennon was saying a violent revolution is bad. He wasn't saying revolutions are bad, just violent ones.
He'd more than likely support OWS, though probably criticize portions of it.
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lennon was a "1% er". how would you know what he meant? are you having seances ?
"lennon was a 1%er" ?! WTF ?!!
When and how did John Lennon ever find the time to create Compound Interest Generating Usurious Debt and then Create a Giant Ponzi Scheme of "Innovative Financial Products" cf. 'Derivatives et al' - all 'derived' from This Debt in order to further enslave previously somewhat quiescent wage-slaves by way of Unconscionable Generational Debt-Bondage ?!!!
ad iudicium et verum ex absurdo ...
it is not how much money one has - there are many who made money but support those who struggle for a better world
True That !!! Some folks have money to burn & some folk got 'karma to burn' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccwBEsx2f4 !! fiat lux !
Wow shadz, talk about cutting through the bullshit!!! Keep on keeping on! (Or some tired, old cliche' like that.) That's all I'm good for at the moment.
'GK' : @ U & others ; "Spirit" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plNRs5kwgE !!! pax, amor et lux ...
Beautiful man, this is earth as it could be, if we from self-forged shackles could be free.
(My appologies to William Blake.)
London By William Blake 1757–1827
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
lennon was a multi millionare.
And ?!!! You deduce what from this ?!!
John Lennon always had a well developed grasp of 'Class & Politics' !
Please listen and reflect upon : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU ...
pax et lux ...
junk music, junk lyrics from a multi millionare.
LOL - now that was funny. Do it again. Do it again. Warn me next time though so I don't spit beer all over my freshly cleaned keyboard.
@ DKAt et al : For your delectation and consideration :
Money As Debt 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3sKwwAaCU
Money As Debt 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmbWBpnCNk
Money As Debt 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6uuAupT4AQ .
radix omnium malorum est cupiditas ...
Thanks shadz66. This is good stuff that most do not ever consider. Hopefully many will look into this as we move forward.
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[ps : & of course - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU ~{:-) }ommm{ ... spero .. x .]
there is some thoughts that John Lennon like one of the others artists was executed for his antiwar lyrics. Why dont you people consider boogie man behind all of this? its seems so obvious for me and so loony and wacky for you...
lol. give me a break
the beatles would be behind OWS 100%
To think otherwise means you don't understand them
You say you'll change the constitution Well, you know We all want to change your head You tell me it's the institution Well, you know You better free you mind instead
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_6MJI4yjII
I hate the Beatles.
Congratulations ! That's the first time in all my born days that I've ever seen those four words together !!
~{:-o) & :-) & thanx for the jolt to the brain, lol !!!
pax et lux ...
Glen Matlock was kicked out of the Sex Pistols for liking the Beatles.
That is actually hilariously very true !!!
Indeed, look what happened to The Pistols' - "Instant Karma". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkhzPwcKkNI ... & I really preferred John Lydon in PiL ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA ) ... but "I could be wrong" ~:-)
pax ...
My first time too. Wow.
ilol! You too eh ?! & ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos-dDxpJlQ .. spero .
Yeah. They were before my time and they can stay there.
This is a little off topic, but why do we keep hearing about nothing but Bob Dylan and never about Joan Baez. Well for one, I think, it was because Joan stayed true to her convictions and paid the price, while Bob never really had any convictions. Besides, any guy that could have dumped Joan Baez in her prime must be a chimpanzee.
It took me a while to understand, but for me there is no doubt, Dylan is the best writer I ever seen.
Oh, yeah, he was a damned good writer, I love a lot of his songs, but his convictions were, "Blowing in the Wind."
I'm sitting here thing about this and i want you to know, that again "for me" there's Dylan then, the list, that I can't find an end to, and can't really on any given day "order" so I don't try to, but where once I would say, you can start with Lennon, now I'm going to be thinking of Baez, every time too, but talk about useless, ranking artists has got to be near the top of the list.
Unless of course they set themselves up as an example and want to run things, even then sometimes judge the person sometimes the ideas, and I try to keep them apart, but hypocrisy is what it is, then again I read a lot into "Honest With Me" that he doesn't.
oh gypsy, life is hard, don't judge the person...
Well, you have a good point. He wrote some great songs. I just happen to really love Joan Baez, so I guess I'm Baezed there:)
LOL
I have no idea. I am not a Dylan fan. I remember reading about Dylan not having this great reputation among his friends due to stealing. I don't know how true that really is or where I read it.
Joan Baez was much better.
I used to be big into Dylan. I even read his Chronicles and Tarantula. I can't even listen to him anymore, I'm so convinced he is a charlatan of a poet and such a minor force in the great history of music. For poetry--I'll read the great poets. For folk music, I'll listen to Pete Seeger. For rock music, I'll listen to the Stooges. For Dylan? I have no place for him.
Yes, she was the real deal, and that's why she virtually disappeared from the American scene afterwards. She didn't cave to pressure, and believe me there was a lot of pressure after the sixties to abandon progressive thinking. I know because I paid a real price for not doing so.
She didn't disappear. She just won an award for her activism last year.
Well as an artist she was completely marginalized in America for a long time. I didn't hear a word about her in the media for I don't know how many years, and I think she has done most of her touring in Europe. They certainly tried to silence her, the way they have done to so many others, by pretending they don't exist.
I agree with that.
There was a PBS special on Joan last week.
I didn't see it.
I'm sorry you missed it I put out an alert that night on the forum. You should check the PBS site a lot of times you can watch a replay there or find another showing.
I'll do that.
She looked really good and they did a very nice job of covering her from before anyone new her right up to recent times.
I will check it out.