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

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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

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if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

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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

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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

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if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

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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

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we could walk

we could talk 

to each 

other 

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we could 

touch 

we could care 

for each 

other

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we could 

sing 

we could 

dream 

together

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we could 

live 

we could 

love

together

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if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

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there'll be no 

flat notes 

up in heaven

all tears 

they will 

become 

songs 

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All words

Will become

Poetry 

songs

There'll be no 

such thing 

As a person 

who could 

couldn't sing

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if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

if the revolution comes 

it will come as a song

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When it comes 

It'll will come as

Poetry

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when it comes

it will come 

like the birds

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When it comes 

It'll will come 

like the wind

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David Arndt 2022

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David Arndt Guatemala