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