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Revolution Lyrics

Artist: The Beatles
Album: The White Album

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right

Comments/Interpretations
by Sarah on 5/19/2008 6:00pm this is the best song in the world go beatles!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by jack on 5/23/2008 6:19pm its totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by skyler on 5/24/2008 5:34pm this song is so awesome! The Beatles rule!
by Aki on 5/27/2008 8:45am I really like the Beatles, and their songs are always really awesome and have great messages!!
by Jey on 5/28/2008 3:20pm it's my favourite song(L)
by Alec on 5/28/2008 4:49pm THis song rocks
by Emily on 6/6/2008 5:09pm Like hundreds of other people, i have found that this song has touched me eternal souullll!!!! i loved how they influenced the sixties and how Jim surges recreated it so magnificently!!!!!!!
by tt.. on 6/27/2008 4:13pm i totally agree with emily!!!.. this song is awesome!! the beatles are the best!.. and jim sturgess does it great!!
by jcf on 7/8/2008 12:53pm i think it's good but while my guitar gently weeps is better
by jenny on 7/13/2008 9:03am i love this song but i love the beatles more!:)go beatles
by roger on 7/25/2008 8:29am though there is very good music out there..nothing comes close to the beatles..ever..in any way Roger
by billy on 7/26/2008 9:30pm you all have chodes
by Kelly on 8/16/2008 1:23am All We Need Is Love
by Ashley on 9/16/2008 11:23am I love this song because it's so applicable to the here and now as well as then. It's a revolutionary song in itself. A massive amount of emotion and personal effort went into it and it shows.
by Rachael on 9/17/2008 5:03pm I agree with everyone! This is the first time i've heard this song and I actually cried lol! Pure genius!!
by jim on 9/21/2008 3:09pm this song blows its the worst song in the world
by T on 10/30/2008 3:50pm I can't say I agree with Jim. This song ROCKS!!!
by mari sp on 11/3/2008 9:54am if you dont like beatles what are you doing here jim? it is the best band in the world
by EMG,Hannah,Noah+Jordan on 11/12/2008 5:32pm i luv this song!!!!! but then again evryone standin' behind me while im typin' loves all the othrs!!! across the universe is a awesum movie!!!!
by ditsy on 11/20/2008 7:24pm this is the most bestist awesomeest greatest song in the whole entire universe it rocks my socks Yeah... <3<3<3
by Jaya on 12/2/2008 12:48am It's a pity that the world is so rotten... In QLD, S7 Fluorosilica has been added to our beautiful clean water for the first time. This is a henious act. The Beatles song will be used as our theme song, in the fight to right - the restoration of our water, back to the people, not owned and controlled by the STATE OF QLD government. It's a sad day that brings control of the masses, by mass forced fluoridation. 'Revolution' lyrics are spot on for our battle..... ! Love the Beatles.
by Marysixtyfour on 12/6/2008 2:43pm fantasticccccc!!!!! Paul rockssss!!!!!!
by cie on 12/27/2008 3:59am best song ever!
by KATE JAYEN on 1/10/2009 3:15pm THIS SONG ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by steve on 3/15/2009 7:39pm yall like that ghetto booty
by JT on 3/27/2009 9:16pm like everyone says its a awsome song, but the beatles were a mastermind when it came to writing songs i havn't ever meet one person, even if they don't like the beatles, who doesn't like at least one of there song i personaly love em all =)
by LenMac on 4/24/2009 9:45am Hey Marysixtyfour- Paul had absolutely nothing to do with "Revolution" other than he was in the band.
by B Please on 4/27/2009 9:13pm Ill make it short because b**** im talking to my niggas. I LOVE THE BEATLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by B$$$$ T$ts on 5/14/2009 8:06pm Beatles are the men. They threw it down. B$$$$ I'm T.I.
by b on 5/18/2009 8:14pm The beatles are amazing but my jerk friend says that noone likes the beatles
by Brian on 5/28/2009 7:45am Man this song is awesome!!!
by m###################3 on 8/11/2009 3:29am this is a great song
by Johnny on 8/28/2009 4:25pm Revolution? Change the Constitution? There is non so blind as he who will not see.
by Dennis on 8/29/2009 9:13am Johnny got it right. Can't you idiots see what's in front of your face. The Beetle's knew it then and Obama knows it now. wake up America!!!!!
by Steven on 10/6/2009 9:23pm This song is decades old, yet it is so fitting with what is going on right now in America. The line, "But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao/ You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow," I liken to those who call the President a Nazi and carry pictures of him as Hitler. Even if those people were saying something that made sense, the name calling makes the world not hear anything else they might have to say. I've always loved this song. Classic Chuck Berry chords electrified. Was just playing it, and came here to read the lyrics--even though I've known them since I was kid. Lennon wrote this one by himself. And what an effort....
by zz top on 10/19/2009 3:27pm change brother to sister, and you have the womens revolution, which has been going on centuries and is still alive and well worldwide. go sisters
by kaitlyn on 10/28/2009 9:29pm this is a really great and one of many great song that beatles sing
by Erin on 11/5/2009 8:36pm beetles rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Jason on 11/21/2009 1:36pm The song was inspired by the Vietnam War and the student movements around the world in 1968. In The Beatles song "Revolution", has a reference to Mao in the lyrics, "But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao, they ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow", this means that many radicals like Lula, Che, Felipe Calderón, and Díaz Ordaz, carrying pictures of Mao, and they dig against communism.
by randy on 2/16/2010 9:14pm i love john george paul and ringo their the best
by TJ on 3/21/2010 7:08pm Has anyone noticed that this song is basically an anti-violence, anti-Marxist/anti-Communist song. That's what makes it outstanding! It seems that those from the '60s who are in charge now within the Congress have strayed to the far left, which is something that this song tells people NOT to do.
by jesus fook on 5/1/2010 4:31pm who is the beatles
by bob on 5/6/2010 4:29pm i like pizza
by annie girl on 9/1/2010 3:32pm BEATLES ROCK!!!!! ITS GONNA BE ALRIGHT!!!~A~
by Eric the Green on 11/29/2010 4:15pm This song is great, and it inspired an even greater one; the best of all time: The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again
by by LYKA on 1/04/11 4:22 on 1/4/2011 2:23am this song is great,awesome,and wonderful
by David Roell on 1/4/2011 4:21pm Sarah Palin: take heed and put done your self-portrait
by Andrew Swanson on 3/9/2011 12:38pm You forgot the question mark on the part where it says, "Don't you know that you can count me out?"
by Jacob on 3/16/2011 12:56pm Yall are all creepy
by Jmaster on 3/16/2011 1:09pm hahahaha what about cheese?
by chris on 4/13/2011 7:01pm viva le beatles
by spencer on 4/20/2011 11:58am I know the Beatles revolutionized music. But they are terrible. There's no musicality or anything. Tone sucks
by neetisha on 5/10/2011 12:05am this is a song which inspires even a junkie to work in the right direction...
by mitz on 6/5/2011 11:52am beatles are awesome... Touchd heart
by Donnie on 8/20/2011 3:46am Tha beatles were and are an amazing group anyone says dif. Is a freakin idiot an doesnt really know good music when they hear it!!
by Wes on 8/31/2011 12:47pm Awsomeness that what that is
by Ellie on 10/31/2011 10:34am Finally the truth about this song is discovered. It is AGAINST violence and FOR the Constitution and God. We need this song now more than ever. John speaks from the grave... (and his wife should be listening!)
by Bruce on 11/3/2011 2:01am You got that right Ellie. And the occupy group should also read and understand the song.
by Robert on 11/19/2011 12:43pm Ellie you are absolutely right the song while not condemning revolution does point out that violent and communism are not roads to change but destruction.
by RANDOM GUY on 12/7/2011 7:04pm Beatles are ok!
by casey 1956 on 12/17/2011 4:21pm This song was written in 1972 and represents what is going on in the world today.The Beatles were way ahead of their time and John Lennon was true visionary that we lost way too soon.
by Tony on 1/13/2012 4:49pm We need this song now with the elections and the Occupy Movement. Please, someone, bring out a boombox or start singing it to these people.
by MSHS Mrs. Strobeck's World History on 1/31/2012 11:17am Great way to introduce conflict!
by La La on 3/9/2012 2:08pm beatles. i like you!!! h...hahahaha
by MuSiC.lOvErZ!!! on 3/15/2012 9:39am LoVe ThIs SoNg!!!:)
by EJM on 3/30/2012 10:01am absolutly love this song...plan on singing it for school talent show just cause itz AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!
by Cat on 4/2/2012 2:14pm I love the beatles!! Music isn't music anymore=( I wish bands would play real music like the beatles!
by Maverick on 4/27/2012 7:56am I hate music! I have to analyze this song for my AP US History class. Like this song is going to be on the exam!

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