Radio Paradise (mobile)

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm, we come to wake up the snoring

They tellin' you to never worry about the future
They tellin' you to never worry about the torture
They tellin you that you'll never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mommas
The f-15 is a homicide bomber
TV commercials for a popping pill culture
Drug companies circling like a vulture
An Iraqi babies with a G.I. Joe father
Ten years from now is anybody gonna bother

Yell fire, yo, yo, yo
Here we come, here we come
Yell fire, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Yell fire, yo, yo, yo
Put em up, put em up
Yell fire, yo, yo, yo
A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution

Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolor scream
Everybody trying to get their hands on same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All of the riches taken back by needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on the record, you can play us on the cd
All the shit you given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can brutalize them
Tell the corporation you can never globalize you
Like peter tosh said "legalize it"
Girls and boys hear the bass and treble
Rumble in the speakers and it make you wanna rebel
Throw your hands up, take it to another level
And you can never, ever, ever make a deal with the devil

Yell fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Here we come, here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Put em up, put em up
Yell fire, yo, yo, yo

Throw your hands up
Put em up, put em up
Throw your hands up
Put em up, put em up
Throw your hands up

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution never come with a warning

Yell fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Here we come, here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Put em up, put em up
Yell fire, yo, yo, yo
Throw your hands up

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm, we come to wake up the snoring

Fire, yo, yo, yo, fire
Here we come here we come
A revolution here it come
Put em up, put em up

DriftingDave May 03, 2013 - 06:23	kingart wrote: Che was not a mass murderer. Misguided dupe, lethal idealist, vicious flunky, shot some folks. Mass murderer? Who wrote the types of history books it sounds like you read, besides Glenn Beck and Rick Perry and Joseph Goebbels? Want to see mass murderers? Besides the usual Pol Pot-Hitler-Stalin portraits, perhaps you should gaze at posters of the nasty knuckleheads who insisted on sending our people to Iraq. It was that type of ruthless imperial behavior that Che (and Dennis Kucinich, and Desmond Tutu, and Oliver Stone, and Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Morello, and, oh, many millions of others) fervently insisted was a very bad idea. If nothing else, Che was right. Shock and awe, my ass, more like shame and horror. Che was definitely a mass murderer; the victims in Cuba, beside Batista people, were intellectuals, liberals, social democrats, homosexuals, etc. It is not surprising though since the ideology Che adhered to is an totalitarian ideology. Your ignorance is quite common though so i am not surprised by your statement; I recommend reading the The Black Book of Communism as an introduction to the atrocities perpetrated by this inhuman ideology. What is most appalling with Che is that he himself willingly executed many political prisoners in La Cabaña. [ Reply ]
Poacher May 03, 2013 - 05:56	Isabeau wrote: Michael gets Angry! And rightly so. I for one, think he should be played more often along with others raising important issues. What happened to protest songs? What happened to critical thinking? What happened to my beautiful world? [ Reply ]
Isabeau Apr 28, 2013 - 14:16	Michael gets Angry! [ Reply ]
Lazarus Apr 28, 2013 - 14:16	Everybody in my church loves this song... [ Reply ]
kingart Mar 28, 2013 - 13:20	MTachyon wrote: Catchy tune, but this commy castro like dude creaps me out. He's like a mass murdering Che Guevara wanna-be. Uhh, I'm 180 on that. This tune adds to the gold standards of the protest song. He's like a mass murdering Che Guevara wanna-be... What the f*** does that even mean? Che was not a mass murderer. Misguided dupe, lethal idealist, vicious flunky, shot some folks. Mass murderer? Who wrote the types of history books it sounds like you read, besides Glenn Beck and Rick Perry and Joseph Goebbels? Want to see mass murderers? Besides the usual Pol Pot-Hitler-Stalin portraits, perhaps you should gaze at posters of the nasty knuckleheads who insisted on sending our people to Iraq. It was that type of ruthless imperial behavior that Che (and Dennis Kucinich, and Desmond Tutu, and Oliver Stone, and Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Morello, and, oh, many millions of others) fervently insisted was a very bad idea. If nothing else, Che was right. Shock and awe, my ass, more like shame and horror. Three piece suits with bank accounts in Bahamas Wall Street crime will never send you to the slammer Tell all the children in the arms of their mamas the F15 is a homicidal bomber. That sounds at least half right to me. Sorry, Michael Franti has a much better idea of that than apparently you possess. [ Reply ]
goozer321 Mar 28, 2013 - 12:45	justin_cook wrote: forgive me for being slow. what's a "useful idiot"? people who can't use google. Like you. [ Reply ]
MTachyon Mar 01, 2013 - 15:48	Catchy tune, but this commy castro like dude creaps me out. He's like a mass murdering Che Guevara wanna-be. [ Reply ]
justin_cook Mar 01, 2013 - 15:47	jpfueler wrote: ain't the delivery. it's the false message from a useful idiot forgive me for being slow. what's a "useful idiot"? [ Reply ]
jimys Jan 29, 2013 - 07:56	jpfueler wrote: ain't the delivery. it's the false message from a useful idiot Yeah, but he's right, revolution never comes with a warning. [ Reply ]
DanO-1 Jan 29, 2013 - 07:54	hanssachs wrote: Heeey, Macarena! Get crazy with the cheese wiz. [ Reply ]
FrnaZ Jan 29, 2013 - 07:54	hanssachs wrote: Heeey, Macarena! [ Reply ]
jpfueler Jan 24, 2013 - 18:36	jimys wrote: Apparently those of you who believe this is rap aren't listening to what Michael Franti is saying. This message is super important for the times we live in regardless of how he chooses to set his words to music. To have such blind preconceived ideas about how the message is delivered is just as bad as ignoring it. ain't the delivery. it's the false message from a useful idiot [ Reply ]
jpfueler Jan 24, 2013 - 18:35	I think he is the only instant mute on Bill's playlist. Dislike this whiny s.o.b. so much I won't even rate the song. [ Reply ]
hanssachs Dec 28, 2012 - 23:45	Heeey, Macarena! [ Reply ]
bitbanger Dec 24, 2012 - 10:44	Yes our education system is broken but funding levels are not the problem. No other country in the world spends as much per student as the US. Franti is a yawn IMHO: catchy tune over a string of vacuous platitudes. Just another would be tyrant that thinks somehow his interests represents scientific truth. We saw a lot of that in the last century and yet we still haven’t learned our lesson apparently. sajitjacob wrote: "As the rest of the world catches up to us in virtually every socioeconomic sphere" Wha!? Umm, Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan etc etc. No catching up required. The above statement underlines what you would arrogance, but it's really only ignorance, which is perfectly curable. Americans can be misguided but only in the sense that the corporate/political world misdirects the populace to it's own advantage. Again this misdirection would not be possible if American was better informed . Keep them ignorant and they will be easily manipulated, Orwell thought such power requires total control, he was wrong all, it required was to break the education system (by under-funding it) and to put it in the hands of the ignorant and the greedy. Fix the education system and you will improve America for everyone. Pizza is not a vegetable. Social Healthcare is not a bad thing and distant War means local jobs and votes. Don't despair, Educate. fitzworld wrote: [ Reply ]
jimys Dec 24, 2012 - 10:35	Apparently those of you who believe this is rap aren't listening to what Michael Franti is saying. This message is super important for the times we live in regardless of how he chooses to set his words to music. To have such blind preconceived ideas about how the message is delivered is just as bad as ignoring it. [ Reply ]
bozobit Dec 24, 2012 - 10:33	I'm an American who has lived overseas for 11 years. (I didn't plan that. It just sort of ... happened.) I can tell you from experience that ignorance is not just an American phenomenon. Most of what passes for intelligent commentary about the USA from people outside the USA is complete rubbish. America is better and smarter than you think, so stop running yourself down, please. [ Reply ]
sajitjacob Sep 25, 2012 - 19:00	"As the rest of the world catches up to us in virtually every socioeconomic sphere" Wha!? Umm, Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan etc etc. No catching up required. The above statement underlines what you would arrogance, but it's really only ignorance, which is perfectly curable. Americans can be misguided but only in the sense that the corporate/political world misdirects the populace to it's own advantage. Again this misdirection would not be possible if American was better informed . Keep them ignorant and they will be easily manipulated, Orwell thought such power requires total control, he was wrong all, it required was to break the education system (by under-funding it) and to put it in the hands of the ignorant and the greedy. Fix the education system and you will improve America for everyone. Pizza is not a vegetable. Social Healthcare is not a bad thing and distant War means local jobs and votes. Don't despair, Educate. fitzworld wrote: The lyrics couldn't be more brutally honest about both American foreign policy and our way of life. What's wrong with we Americans that makes us so arrogant and misguided? Is everything about greed now? Does everything have to have a profit motive? Like all great empires before us, it's evident that our prominence and influence are gradually dwindling. As the rest of the world catches up to us in virtually every socioeconomic sphere, we are being challenged in ways that we haven't in the past and of course that's upsetting to a lot of Americans who aren't smart enough to see the writing on the wall and connect the dots. As much as I think there was a time when it was often beneficial for the United States to wield it's power in the world, that time is long past, and this song explains why. And the answer is really simple: Both our government and private sectors are riddled with dishonesty and corruption, and the economic collapse and disparity between the haves and the have-nots in our country tell the whole story. [ Reply ]
fitzworld Aug 15, 2012 - 16:28	The lyrics couldn't be more brutally honest about both American foreign policy and our way of life. What's wrong with we Americans that makes us so arrogant and misguided? Is everything about greed now? Does everything have to have a profit motive? Like all great empires before us, it's evident that our prominence and influence are gradually dwindling. As the rest of the world catches up to us in virtually every socioeconomic sphere, we are being challenged in ways that we haven't in the past and of course that's upsetting to a lot of Americans who aren't smart enough to see the writing on the wall and connect the dots. As much as I think there was a time when it was often beneficial for the United States to wield it's power in the world, that time is long past, and this song explains why. And the answer is really simple: Both our government and private sectors are riddled with dishonesty and corruption, and the economic collapse and disparity between the haves and the have-nots in our country tell the whole story. [ Reply ]
socalhol Aug 13, 2012 - 16:17	msercer wrote: You shouldnt just listen to Michael Franti, you should also hear what he's saying. Nevertheless, music is great too. Am a huge fan and will always remember his concert in Tasmania, AUS, for NY eve 2003. Whole lota love! Peace! I hear yah! I've seen him perform 4 times — the first time I think 2008 or 2009, outdoor venue (Marymoor Park) was just magical. Seriously, I've seen so many concerts in my life, and it ranked up in the top 3 for me. The indoor venues were okay. Although he posted last minute on FB that he'd do a short set outside (steps of Key Arena) before opening for John Mayer a couple years ago — and we raced down and made it in time, THAT was amazing too! He is a very honest and real human being who cares about his fans. [ Reply ]