The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott Heron)
I grew up in the land of the brave.
Why did George Washington chop down the cherry tree?
Those who think they’re free are easy to enslave.
In school, I was taught the faith
that we Americans are the only ones who’re free.
Yes, I grew up in the land of the brave,
but I never really did believe
all the hokum that I learned in my History
classes. Those who think they’re free are easy to enslave
was never an architrave
in the temple-myths passed down to me
growing up in the land of the brave.
Are we content to let presumption stave
off the truth of what our eyes plainly see,
that we who think we’re free are easy to enslave
with our own greed and the terror spread on the air waves
unless we have the sense to turn off the TV.
We grew up in the land of the brave
thinking we were free, but we were easy to enslave.
