The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Lyrics - Pieces Of A Man - Gil Scott-heron

You will not be able to stay home, brother 

You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out 

You will not be able to lose yourself on skag 

And skip out for beer during commercials 

Because the revolution will not be televised 

The revolution will not be televised 

The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox 

In 4 parts without commercial interruptions 

The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon 

Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell 

General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws 

Confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary 

The revolution will not be televised 

The revolution will not be brought to you by the 

Schaefer Award Theater and will not star Natalie Woods 

And Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia 

The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal 

The revolution will not get rid of the nubs 

The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner 

Because the revolution will not be televised, Brother 

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May 

Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run 

Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance 

NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 

Or report from 29 districts 

The revolution will not be televised 

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down 

Brothers on the instant replay 

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down 

Brothers on the instant replay 

There will be no pictures of Whitney Young 

Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process 

There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkens 

Strolling through Watts in a red, black and green 

Liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving 

For just the proper occasion 

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Hooter ville Junction 

Will no longer be so damned relevant 

And women will not care if Dick finally gets down with Jane 

On search for tomorrow because black people 

Will be in the street looking for a brighter day 

The revolution will not be televised 

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news 

And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists 

And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose 

The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb 

Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones 

Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink or the Rare Earth 

The revolution will not be televised 

The revolution will not be right back after a message 

About a white tornado, white lightning, or white people 

You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom 

The tiger in your tank or the giant in your toilet bowl 

The revolution will not go better with Coke 

The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath 

The revolution will put you in the driver's seat 

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised 

Will not be televised, will not be televised 

The revolution will be no re-run brothers 

The revolution will be live