well i dreamed i went out a wanderin'   i heard promises become fables forgotten   i saw bridges stretchin' out across the water   and towers pushing taller      i knew my reality was clearly defined   by the fences put up around my mind   i watched them thicken into walls over time   taller than any boarder line   i saw civilizations deemed insignificant   i saw people's history tatooed on their skin   i saw families taken from their land   dynasties shattered and stolen      and i asked when... is a revolution   i asked when... is a revolution      in all the burdens of centuries accrue   that get passed along to every generation's youth   and all the allegories told in lieu of truth   i watched them grow wild and spread like the flu      i saw the rise of an untamed industry   i watched machines paint a paper economy   i saw my own self stand right in front of me   and i didn't do a thing      i saw poisons pushed in the street   and prescription pills mingling in the mezzanine   with a whole host of wealth of doctors and pharmaceutical companies   still poor people were dying from disease      and i asked when... is a revolution   i asked when... is a revolution   i asked when... is a revolution   i asked when... is a revolution      and i broke down at the break of dawn   I saw new meaning in the clouds above the Pentagon   as real as the hollocaust as stong as the Parthanon   visions of Sudan Iraq and Vietnam      i stood silent upon a flooded levy   and stared at the ruins of a merchant city   and the president who came to dine with the noble elite   he didnt do a thing      i saw three ships come sailing in   through the passage of the CARIBBEAN   i saw children coming home in coffins   millions marching on washington      and i asked when... is a revolution   i asked when... is a revolution   i asked when, when... is a revolution   i asked when... is a revolution