Unravelling the Fabric of America (working title)

Unravelling the Fabric of America (working title)

by Danny Baker and Kelly Powell

Driving down the highway

Looking for something meaningful to do

On a cold, sunny March afternoon

At the Crossroads of Spring and Winter

Feeling a bad election coming on

Gonna work that line into a better song

More and more and more good, hardworking people

Getting less and less to show for it

The Man grinding slaves into a machine

Chorus:

I feel a Revolution coming on

In the backroads and streets of America

I feel a Revolution coming on

Millions of working in poverty strong

Occupied a piece of prime real estate in New York City

A couple of years ago already

With sleeping bags and speeches, books and high ideals

Rhetoric for evolution of the masses

We felt a revolution coming on

Millions of people strong

We felt a revolution coming on

Nothing truly gained, nothing really changed

Look at what happened to Tankman

Had the power to stop a tank with his bare hands

in Tianenman Square

Disappeared into history, tortured and annhilated

Or did he just end up running a tourist shop in Schnectady?

Which ending makes us feel better?

There's a Revolution coming on

Everyone breaking into song

There's a Revolution coming on

Probably already too far gone

Kennedys and Seegers dead or done cleaning up the rivers

Nader stopped running, whining no one came out to vote

But I hear on the small print at the back of the newspaper

People keep writing in his name on ballads (ballots) just the same

Someone's always crying for a Revolution

Mostly don't know where its going

Someone's always crying for Revolution

Just not looking at what they're doing

Then they're crying when it comes