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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 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 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 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 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 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 Calder�n, and D�az Ordaz, carrying pictures of Mao, and they dig against communism.

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 bob on 5/6/2010 4:29pm
i like pizza

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 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 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 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 jason on 5/30/2012 2:40pm
i have to create a song based on this song for world history.

by waz uppppppp on 6/7/2012 3:04pm
the is communist

by Rhonda Siegers on 7/18/2012 4:54pm
Did we ever know that Bill Ayres and the, "weather underground" and black panthers and all the other radicals of the time of the 60's went to Lennon to get him on board to take down America and riot because they were the most influential music group in the world and instead of going along with it, he told them he would have to think about it and then proceeded to write this song...it was the END of the radical movement as Lennon in his lyrics tells his feelings and Bill Ayres must have been livid when this came out....Ever wonder now about the assassination of Lennon???????

by Twinkle Toes on 1/14/2013 7:25am
What killed Lennon was a ratbag country; full of guns, & nuts, & gun-nuts...& it's worse now than it was then!

by Oakland Gang on 4/29/2014 4:47am
I dont hate their ideas or lyrics, but they sound awful,their lyrics always have meaning but the sound is a piece of crap