The revolution starts now    (video)

 

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1.     I was walkin’ down the street in the town where I was born,

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    I was movin’ to a beat that I’d never felt before,

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    So I opened up my eyes and I took a look around,

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    I saw it written ‘cross the sky, the revolution starts now.

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    Yeah, the revolution starts now !

 

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2.    The revolution starts now when you rise above your fear,

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    and tear the walls around you down, the revolution starts here.

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  Where you work and where you play, where you lay your money down, 

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    what you do and what you say, the revolution starts now.

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    Yeah, the revolution starts now !

 

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    Yeah, the revolution starts now,

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    in your own backyard, in your own hometown.

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    So what you doin, standin, around ?

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    Just follow your heart, the revolution starts now  !

 

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3.    Last night I had a dream that the world had turned around,

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    and all our hopes had come to be, and the people gathered ‘round.

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    They all brought what they could bring, and nobody went without,

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    and I learned a song to sing, the revolution starts  - now !

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Steve Earle)