Dan Bern - True Revolutionaries lyrics

Look ma, they're gonna fry Tim McVay She said, "The nice guy who's on the cover of all those magazines? Why would they want to do a thing like that?" I said, "'Cause he k**ed all those people In oklahoma city." She said, "Nonsense. People don't k** people Carbombs k** people." I said, "Well yeah mom, but they gotta do something with him." She said, "Why don't they just get Mike Tyson To bite off both his ears." And I say True revolutionaries never bomb buildings True revolutionaries never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings A little girl down my block was born with silicone in her breasts It turned out her grandma and her mother both had the implants done well Evolution took care of it this time around And I wondered what it is about So many women with big breasts Make it look so sad and I thought well Maybe it has something to do with the weight The burden there is to carry in the world To have to feed it To be the object of its desires and I wondered what burdens the rest of us Are carrying all the time I couldn't help thinking True revolutionaries never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings I decided to go for a walk And not do nothing except look everyone I see in the eyes And not be the first to avert my eyes, no matter what And I was planning to be gone for 10 minutes But things started happening and I didn't return for two years By which time I was the heavyweight champion of the world And the expectant father of 16 children By 13 different women I was in a fishing village in the coast of Spain It was Our Lady of Abortions sunday afternoon all the pregnant women in their first trimester were filing before the priest To receive their blessing of Try again sometime, try again. The old barber had died his hair green for the occasion And pierced his nipples and was riding his skateboard to the statue Of Conan O'Brien Where he was doing backflips for the kids Who threw coins given to them by their parents The visiting lecturer, achingly handsome Had just finished giving a how to build bombs in your basement seminar in the park All the young girls put away their notebooks dreamily The chimpanzee who had managed to type out hamlet three years before Was sitting in the third floor office of a drivers license building Typing out zoning ordinances Typing out learners permits Bored and lonely Pee Wee Herman was sitting in the central square on the gra** Naked and masturbating While all the townspeople moved to him Slowly and kissed him softly and Sung him lullabyes in the gra** And in Berkeley and in greenwhich village And in paris and scottsbluff nebraska No one sits around in funky little coffee shops anymore talking about revolution Nah, they get a starbucks to go And they go back to their basketball games Where they see who can jump higher Who can jam Who can take it to the rack And they all wear baseball caps 'Cept they don't say yankees or dodgers They say nike, reebok, adidas 'Cause the pro players don't play for teams anymore They play for shoe companies And the kids aren't fooled Nah, they're just biding their time Waiting for the millenium to come When all the computers will crash 'Cause the best scientists of the world Forgot to make them read zeros True revolutionaries never bomb buildings True revolutionaries never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings Now sitting there with a head full of dark thoughts Like I sometimes get Suddenly everything cleared And I realized that the only purpose for revolution Is to be able to love who you want How you want, when you want and where you want So I took off all my clothes Stole a boat and road out to the middle of the lake And jumped in And I looked back at you And said come on! Get wet! True revolutionaries never bomb buildings True revolutionaries never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings They never bomb buildings They never bomb buildings