This song could have been written about austerity and the unfairness of how it works. The rich get richer and the poor get squashed. Public services get smashed and the rich use their private services to gain even more advantage.
Austerity favours the establishment.
When people are abused so much, when inequality reaches a peak, they spontaneously rise up and smash the system. We nearly saw it with the riots of a few years back.
The Tories and the bankers run a pretty shady business of looking after their rich buddies and toffs. Austerity was a great excuse.
However, this song was about the racial divide in America which has created an underclass of black Americans.
They are beginning to assert themselves but they have a long way to go.
We are all one species. Nobody should have any greater right than anybody else!
A revolution will happen one way or another. I hope for slow gradual change towards greater fairness. Violence is always a loser for everyone!
If austerity and the racial divide continues , if the global poverty levels are allowed to go on, there will be a reckoning
We need to listen to the whispers.
“Talkin’ Bout A Revolution”
They’re talkin’ bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what’s theirs
Don’t you know
You better run, run, run…
Oh I said you better Run, run, run…
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin’ bout a revolution
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