Song Description
Rock calypso feel over clave like beat with a xylaphone and horns. Different viewpoints of the coming storm of a revolution.
| Song Length |
3:43 |
Genre |
Rock - Easy Listening, World - General |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Sociable, In High Spirits |
| |
Lyrics
There's a general in a hotel suite
Far above the city streets
Filling now with retribution
Once he was a rebel
Now he's waitin' on the revolution
There's a soldier at a barricade
Young and proud and unafraid
Thirsty for his contribution
Wide-eyed in the breaking dawn
Waitin' on a revolution
There's a fire burning in the square
Banners waving in the air
Offering their new solution
In the calm, before the storm
Waiting on the revolution
Oh, oh, oh, oh
There's a young girl in a ghetto seat
Tryin' to build a bridge between
The grace of God and destitution
Underpriveleged, overdrove
Waitin' on the revolution
Young monk sits beneath a tree
Deep inside himself he sees
An end to this world's confusion
In the dark, before the dawn
Waitin' on the revolution
Oh, oh, oh, oh