i'm a revolutionary
who missed the revolution
its by no fault of my own
its all in the timing
when it came my time to serve
all the visible enemies had taken cover
and those before me retired
i never heard who won/ though i believe
it was not the revolutionaries

i was born too late
too late to march with my people
during the time of:
black power
black panthers
black muslims
black and i'm proud
i remember those slogans though
i was too young to know
a revolution was going on

years passed
and the retired revolutionaries woke
from their revolutionary dreams
to find reality (they didn't bother to tell me)
reality is a hard master
dreamers have little place in its presence
King/ was a dreamer
reality killed him
i think that's what happened to the revolution
we had too many dreamers
and not enough in reality