I Asked When

Well, I dreamed I went out wandering

I heard promises become fables forgotten

I saw bridges stretching out across the water

And towers pushing taller

I knew my reality was clearly defined

By the fences put up around my mind

I watched them thicken into walls over time

Taller than any borderline

I saw civilizations deemed insignificant

I saw people?s history tattooed upon their skin

I saw families taken from their land

Dynasty shattered and stolen

And I asked when is the revolution

I asked when is the revolution

And all the burdens the centuries accrue

That get passed along to every generations youth

And all the allegories told in lewd truth

I watched them grow wild and spread like a flu

I saw the rise of an untamed industry

And I watched machines print a paper economy

I saw my own self stand right in front of me

And I didn't do a thing

I saw poisons pushed in the street

And prescription pills mingling in the mezzanine

With a whole wealth of doctors and pharmaceutical companies

Still poor people were dying from disease

And I asked when is the revolution

I asked when is the revolution

I asked when is the revolution

I asked when is the revolution

And I broke down at the break of dawn

And saw looming in the clouds above the Pentagon

As he re-lives the holocaust as strong as the parkin' on

Visions [Incomprehensible] Vietnam

And I stood silent upon the flooded levee

Stared at the ruins of a merchant city

And the president who came to dine with the noble, he

He didn't do a thing

I saw three ships come sailing in

Through the passage of the Caribbean

I saw children coming home in coffins

Millions marching on Washington

And I asked when is the revolution

I asked when is the revolution

I asked when, when is the revolution

I asked when is the revolution