Revolution - Beatles - ya better free your mind instead

Beatles Revolution, as poignant today as ever




Take two
Okay
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?
Don't you know it's gonna be (all right)
Don't you know it's gonna be (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 all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be (all right)
Don't you know it's gonna be (all right)
Don't you know it's gonna be (all right)

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We'd all love to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free your 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)
Don't you know it's gonna be (all right)
Don't you know it's gonna be (all right)
All, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all, all right
All right, all right, all right, all right, all right

On the other hand:


Donovan "New Year's Resovolution"

Do what you've never done before
See what you've never seen
Feel what you've never felt before
Go where you've never been.

Sing what you've never sung before
Say what you've never said
Bear what you've never borne before
Hear what you've never heard.

All is not as it would seem
Nothing ever remains the same
Change is life's characteristic
Bend and flow and play the game
Loose your chain.

Do what you like, oh
Get on your bike and do what you like
Get on your bike and do what you like.

So many times
I was the one who stopped myself from doing things
So many times
I was the one who grounded myself and clipped my wings
So I say ..

Do what you've never done before
For fear of losing face
You have nothing to defend now
In your state of grace.

All is not as it would seem
Nothing ever remains the same
Change is life's characteristic
Bend and flow and play the game
Loose your chain.

Do what you like
What you've never done before
(Get on your bike and do what you like)
You must see what you have never seen
(Get on your bike and do what you like)
Feel what you have never felt before
(Get on your bike and do what you like)
You must go where you have never been
(Get on your bike and do what you like).

So many times
I was the one who stopped myself from doing things
So many times
I was the one who grounded myself and clipped my wings
(Should what you like) and clipped my wings
(Should what you like) and clipped my wings
(Should what you like) and clipped my wings
(Should what you like).

Love is the gift of man, yet he will not receive
Within is the church of man, yet he cannot perceive
Without is the realm of man, he yet cannot conceive
Man is the plague of man, yet he will not believe.

There go you, go I
There go you, go I
There go you, go I.

a reply to: HunkaHunka

Beatles Revolution, as poignant today as ever

1980 made it irrelevant as the hippies started growing up.
Some didn't .
I did.

a reply to: HunkaHunka

Do we really need a revolution?
Why oh why can't we just work together
for once in human history?
Let's work together! :


Otherwise, well I'll just have to
pick up my guitar and play.

a reply to: HunkaHunka

Taking in consideration the time that song was made, which revolution were they talking about ?

Those were the days communism tried to take over the globe. Fidel, for example.

The Beatles weren't time travelers, they had no references of our current situation.

They were knights and served a crown. Their songs made them rich.

a reply to: HunkaHunka



Call out the instigators
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Lock up the streets and houses
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Hand out the arms and ammo
We're going to blast our way through here
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

originally posted by: RavenSpeaks
a reply to: HunkaHunka

Do we really need a revolution?
Why oh why can't we just work together
for once in human history?
Let's work together! :

Otherwise, well I'll just have to
pick up my guitar and play.

Work together... like the left worked with Trump?
I seem to remember a lot of #RESIST going on out there on the left.

I'll bet if a person posts #RESIST on Twitter after noon on Wednesday, it will be taken down.

A revolution back to the same old democrat regime.
Hilarious.

Here's a more appropriately poignant theme song for the incoming administration -



Got up this morning to make some coffee
Everything sucks today
Prayed someone hired a hitman to off me
Everything sucks today

Got up on the wrong side of life this morning
Nothing today is gonna go my way
Horoscope told me lies this morning
I don't think anything is gonna be okay
Today
Everything sucks today (repeat 2x)

Right girl didn't call and the wrong one's
Knockin'
Everything sucks today
Flat tire on my car so I guess I'm walkin
Everything sucks today

Taxman came and took my money
Now all my other bills are gonna be late
My girlfriend's movin in this morning
I don't think anything is gonna be okay
Today
Everything sucks today (3x)

Got up on the wrong side of life this morning
Nothing today is gonna go my way
Horoscope told me lies this morning
I don't think anything is gonna be okay
Today
Everything sucks today (3x)