Televised - Sylvan Lacue, Rayana Jay

All for money, all for power, all for purpose

Final hour, what’s the outcome?

Brother Malcolm, I thank God but I’ve lost my-

Lost my patience, I can’t take it, why so flagrant?

Box with Satan, lead us not into temptation

Prayers up to the most high

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a revolution?

Do you wanna…

Wait to live your life, let me know (ayy, won’t you let me know)

Ain’t no telling where you’re going (ooh, boy you never know)

My uncle died, back against the ropes (ayy, back up on the ropes)

My daddy left the crib back in '94 (ooh, back in '94)

Momma pulled me to the side «Boy, you know there’s hope» (ayy, boy,

you know there’s hope)

Break the cycle, baby, let your wings grow (ooh,)

Don’t wanna end up 40 on the corner store (ayy, to the corner store)

Lotto tickets, politicking, selling dope (ooh)

Wonder where we all are going…

All for money, all for power, all for purpose

Final hour, what’s the outcome?

Brother Malcolm, I thank God but I’ve lost my-

Lost my patience, I can’t take it, why so flagrant?

Box with Satan, lead us not into temptation

Prayers up to the most high

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a…

And I wonder where a black man lies in the world

Judging 'by the timing the climate

disregarded through malice

Screaming silence for a seat upon the table overlooking all the valence

Maybe I was thinking black diamonds and pearls

Back to the originator, kings, queens generated

Continental ring well demonstrated

Penetrated never be disintegrated

Brought us to a land where freedom would ring

Maybe on the other side, all I ear is bullets singing lullabies

Tissue for my niggas who won’t come alive

Sick of all my mother’s cries

Promises of morning never would bring but-

But I don’t need no .48

Just find me in a kingdom full of love, separated from the ignorant of us

Tell me who are we to trust when there’s government officials overseeing our

demise

Trigger happy police give a fuck if we oblige

I don’t know the number, tell me just how many died

Over miscommunication of our color, I’m alive

Scared of walking alone and see a Donald sticker

With a stick yelling «Nigga, I’m a fucker around and catch a homicide»

Systematically improving other side of genocide

Murder, murder, murder

How will we survive?

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a revolution?

Do you want a…

You will not be able to stay at home brother

You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out

You will not be able to lose your cellphone

Scared you skip out for beer during commercials

Because the revolution will not be televised

Because the revolution

Will not be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revo-

Now tell me why they hate my skin, momma (woo)

They wanna kill us 'till we end, momma (woo)

You need change fuck a friend, momma (woo)

I just don’t know where to begin, momma

Or maybe I do and I’m still on my own

Ways of my destruction

Lately I battle inner corruption

I like my yak with 21 savage and pockets of cabbage, no interruptions,

some pussy and peace of mind can rewind me back to assumptions

Shit, I ain’t here to talk about Trump

Redundancy cumbers me, rather humbling the

Hearts of those who worry on the future

Hope these minutes of music provide some comfort for you to

Use beyond what was given

I’m a black man in a white world

White-lashed 'til we bite back

Then it’s Jim Crow when the hype swirls

But the call might come along on my way home but I’m scared straight

Shit switch in a heartbeat

How much will it cost me to be civilized while I’m criminalized?

Ironic when it’s minimal times

Racism individualized

Luminize in these critical times

Because the revolution will not be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be

The revolution won’t be televised

The revolution won’t be televised, the revolution won’t be televised,

the revolution won’t

The revolution won’t be televised, the revolution won’t be televised,

the revolution won’t

The revolution won’t be televised, the revolution won’t be…