The Revolution Starts Now

I was walkin’ down the street
In the town where I was born
I was movin’ to a beat
That I’d never felt before
So I opened up my eyes
And I took a look around
I saw it written ‘cross the sky
The revolution starts now
Yeah, the revolution starts now

The revolution starts now
When you rise above your fear
And tear the walls around you down
The revolution starts here
Where you work and where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do and what you say
The revolution starts now
Yeah the revolution starts now

Yeah the revolution starts now
In your own backyard
In your own hometown
So what you doin’ standin’ around?
Just follow your heart
The revolution starts now

Last night I had a dream
That the world had turned around
And all our hopes had come to be
And the people gathered ‘round
They all brought what they could bring
And nobody went without
And I learned a song to sing
The revolution starts now

Just recently found Steve Earle. His album "The Revolution Starts... Now" came out in August 2004 and was supposed to herald the return of sanity in America. It was supposed to be the soundtrack of the rejection of the neocons. Didn't happen that way. But this time maybe it will stick.

My Mom sent me this article, Racism and the Race, saying how much it scares her that, we Americans are still so unenlightened, blinded, fearful, that we will let race hold us back. That we will shoot ourselves in the foot or, more accurately, in the face and elect McCain simply because Obama is black.

My response is:
"The revolution starts now
When you rise above your fear
And tear the walls around you down
The revolution starts here"

Here and now.
Here and now.
The revolution starts.
Sometimes sheer force of will, sweat and work are the only things that make change happen. We can not fail.

So, I ask, "So what you doin’ standin’ around?"

Also, I may have dismissed them too soon, just heard this recently: