This Is Not A Revolution...

It's so hard watching frogs swimming around in a pot, as the heat is gradually being turned up... 

And they don't notice it and don't jump out of the almost boiling water to save themselves (and future generations)...

LYRICS:

This is not your saviour
Or the answer to those prayers
I don't believe anyone will take you there
They said the writing on the wall should read
"No one really cares"

This is not a revolution
Till we say it is
Till we say it is

This is not a revolution
Till we say it is
Till we say it is

Have you ever heard the story
Of the pauper and the prince?
They traded places, we haven't seen either one ever since
It seems we only want what we don't have, No one ever wins

This is not a revolution
Till we say it is
Till we say it is

This is not a revolution
Till we say it is
Till we say it is

And I got a hundred memories

You only make it harder on yourself
When you fought too long for someone else

You only make it harder on yourself
When you fought too long for someone else
Someone else

This is not a revolution (x4)

They said the writing on the wall should read
No one really cares, No one really cares

This is not a revolution
No one really cares
This is not a revolution
No one really cares 

"The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy."

 - Thomas Paine, "First Principles of Government," 1795

 

You Do Realise...

... that we are living inside a REVOLUTION, don't you?

Just take some time to give that idea a chance to sink in...

What does that mean for you?

Maybe it would help get some perspective if we looked back at all of the other revolutions and rebellions we have instigated or fought against...

and there are many, many, many of them... see this (not exhaustive) list:

Revolutions & Rebellions Through The Ages

Seems we are a restless, confused, capricious, difficult to please species... 

Well not really; it seems like some of us have a need to be in power and control over the rest, and others of us don't like being dis-empowered and controlled...

So, given that we don't seem to have the knowledge or the will to do things differently, eventually, we fight it out... 

What's different this time?

One thing that is certainly different, is that this time the revolution is global...

AND there is more at stake - the survival of our own and all the other species living on the planet, if not the planet herself...

So, in the first place, do you believe me?  You don't have to take my word for it... open your eyes and ears and your mind... look all around you...

And if you then do agree that we are living inside a REVOLUTION, where do you stand?

For or Against?

And what will you do for or against this REVOLUTION?

Everything?

Something?

Nothing?


LYRICS

History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
Don't say the words you might regret
I've lost before you know I can't forget

There was a girl I used to know
She dealt my love a savage blow
I was so young, too blind to see
But anyway that's History

(I say) History never repeats
I Tell myself before I go to sleep
Don't say the words you might regret
I've lost before you know I can't forget

You say I always played the fool
I can't go on if that's the rule
Better to jump than hesitate
I need a change and I can't wait

History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
And there's a light shining in the dark
Leading me on towards a change of heart (ah-ar)

History never repeats (x2)

Deep in the night it's all so clear
I lie awake with great ideas
Lurking about in no-man's land
I think at last I understand

History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
And there's a light shining in the dark
Leading me on towards a change of heart (ah-ar)
Never repeats (x3)
Hey Hey, Hey... 

Political and Social Apathy... What's Your Excuse?

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

- Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

 - Frederick Douglass