After I had listened some of the protests songs suggested by our English teacher, I chose the Tracy's Chapman song, called 'Talkin' 'bout revolution'. The song was released on 1988 and its part of her debut album, Tracy Chapman.
Don't you know
They're talkin' bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you konw
They're talkin' bout 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 unemplotment lines
Sitting around waitinf for a promotion
Don't you know
They're talkin' bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you konw
They're talkin' bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
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, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh I said you better run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
It's finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution
It's finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution oh no
Talkin' bout a revolution oh
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemplotment lines
Sitting around waitinf for a promotion
Don't you know
They're talkin' bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Anf finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution
It's finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution oh no
Talkin' bout a revolution oh no
Talkin' bout a revolution oh no
Going in depth with the song, in the first paragraph, I think that the singer-songwriter when she says 'Don't you know, They're talkin' 'bout a revolution', she is refering to what the people wants and talk about.
In the second paragraph, the author talks about what people do when they are in a bad living situation. She says that they wasting their time waiting for government assistance, welfares, and better jobs or even job, considering that she says: 'Wasting time in the unemployment lines, sitting around waiting for a promotion.'
Finally, Tracy Chapman says that the poor people will rise up and that is why the goverment better run. And then, she sings 'finally the tables are starting to turn' refering to the beginning of a revolution.
In my opinion, even if this song is a little bit short and it is formed practically by three paragraphs (taking into consideration the paragraphs replay that she does), the song defends clearly the idea of revolution against the corrupt governments and the economical system. I can say that the song brought or could had brought a lot of polemic considering that by the lyrics of the song, she led us to believe that she had (or has) some Marxism feeling because of the indirectly criticism she does about the economic sistem that controls the majoritary of the states.
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