When the Revolution Comes

When The Revolution Comes

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I'm sitting here waiting

waiting for something

I think won't ever come

I'm sitting here waiting

for a star to come down

but you know I fear 

I could die here waiting

waiting for something 

to turn it around

sitting here 

waiting

wasting time

instead of 

taking a look

what's here 

what's around

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

I got up 

Left the mountain

I left that lofty 

lofty peak

got back down to  

good green earth

to a place 

I could 

touch my feet

I got rid of all my 

books by Hegel

I got rid of Marx 

ideology too

I didn't go out 

buy the I Ching

I stopped going 

away for 

weekends 

looking to 

become 

enlightened

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

We could 

write a song  

that never ended

we could sing it  

Our whole lives too 

it would be 

forever changing

It would be whole

would be true

we could walk

we could talk 

to each 

other 

we could 

touch 

we could care 

for each 

other

we could 

sing 

we could 

dream 

together

we could 

live 

we could 

love

together

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

there'll be no 

flat notes 

up in heaven

all tears 

they will 

become 

songs 

All words

Will become

Poetry 

songs

There'll be no 

such thing 

As a person 

who could 

couldn't sing

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

When it comes 

It'll will come as

Poetry

when it comes

it will come 

like the birds

When it comes 

It'll will come 

like the wind

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David Penn Arndt 2022

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Artwork Peter Kennedy