Ely Joe

(Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)







Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Your revolution is a silly idea, yeah

All your friends are feeling sad

It's like you need a reason to be feeling bad, yeah

You sport an armband when your good and mad, yeah



(chorus)

La, la, la, la revolution (the future never happened)

La, la, la, la revolution



I don't know why I'm feeling bad, yeah

I picked up a bad vibration

Oliver North is running for Senate

Bomb the abortion clinic

Reagan's defense is the deficit

The virus was invented

Black man can't get acquitted

Of the crimes that we committed

The future never happened, it never happened



La, la, la, la revolution (the future never happened)

La, la, la, la, I picked up a bad vibration



Your revolution is a silly idea, yeah

You tried to look like a punk rock girl

A whole lotta sneer, and little curl

I don't have time for your theatrics

Everybody knows that you're a bad actress

We've been sorry for great too long, yeah

But a scum is rising, yeah



(repeat chorus 2x)