It was a time I'll always remember   Because I could never forget   How reality fell down around us   Like some Western movie set   And once the dust all settled   The sun shone so bright   And a great calm took over us   Like it was all gonna be alright   That's how it felt to be alive   After the revolution      From Groton to Tacoma   On many a factory floor   The workers talked of solidarity   And refused to build weapons of war   No more will we make missiles   We're gonna do something different   And for the first time   Their children were proud of their parents   And somewhere in Gaza a little boy smiled and cried   After the revolution      Prison doors swung open   And mothers hugged their sons   The Liberty Bell was ringing   When the cops put down their guns   A million innocent people   Lit up in the springtime air   And Mumia and Leonard and Sarah Jane Olson   Took a walk in Tompkins Square   And they talked about what they'd do now   After the revolution      The debts were all forgiven   In all the neo-colonies   And the soldiers left their bases   Went back to their families   And a non-aggression treaty   Was signed with every sovereign state   And all the terrorist groups disbanded   With no empire left to hate   And they all started planting olive trees   After the revolution      George Bush and Henry Kissinger   Were sent off to the World Court   Their plans for global domination   Were pre-emptively cut short   Their weapons of mass destruction   Were inspected and destroyed   The battleships were dismantled   Never again to be deployed   And the world breathed a sigh of relief   After the revolution      Solar panels were on the rooftops   Trains upon the tracks   Organic food was in the markets   No GMO's upon the racks   And all the billionaires   Had to learn how to share   And Bill Gates was told to quit his whining   When he said it wasn't fair   And his mansion became a collective farm   After the revolution      And all the political poets   Couldn't think of what to say   So they all decided   To live life for today   I spent a few years catching up   With all my friends and lovers   Sleeping til eleven   Home beneath the covers   And I learned how to play the banjo   After the revolution