STILL WAITING

Been sittin round drinkin

and just got to to thinkin

bout what I got and what I ain't

and why I don't just go home

but sure as I do I'll miss it...

cause I'm still waiting for The Revolution

Now I ain't got fifteen hippies

sleepin on my floor

and a couple others tryin to crawl in through the window

and some chick I never seen before

in my shower when I get up to take a leak

all laughin and pokin fun at me

for havin a JOB I go to in the mornings

And I ain't got no sweet young thing

that I call my old lady

but I got an old lady

that I call my old lady

and I ain't got hair

growin down to my ass

but I got some on it...

and I'm still waiting for The Revolution

Ain't got two fingers to flash y'all the peace sign

but I got one in the middle

that seems to work better these days

and I ain't feedin my head

or listenin to The Dead

but I'm livin the high life just the same

thanks to Mr. Miller...

still waiting for The Revolution

And there's no Tricky Dick

to sell me a used car

or that phony war to tug at my gut

There was only Slick Willie

who didn't inhale

still pullin our leg...

still waiting for The Revolution

No Gil Scott-Herron spittin angry words

goin round and round on my turntable

the closest to you-know-what he ever got

and my giant Stokely Carmichael poster

is off the wall

but aren't we all

and I ain't got no Jimi or Janis

or Ten Years After

but now its like FORTY years after

and here I sit...

still waiting for The Revolution

Now I know I had my mojo workin

at one time or another

but I think the batteries went dead

and it's probably just as well

cause nobody wants to make it anymore

at the drop of a hat

but lots of folks are willin to pass theirs around

if I'll just put somethin in it...

still waiting for The Revolution

And maybe I did lose a few billion

brain cells somewhere along the way

and maybe my personality's a little wooden

but I'm no dummy

cause there's somethin in those youthful eyes

I think I recognize

you with the dreadlocks

and your little friend with the nipples

grandstanding beneath her shirt

yeah

it's that look that's more hopeful than wise

cause I can see that you

are waiting for The Revolution too