On more time and you'll be
Dead
At least I think that's what
They said
Forty days won't break a man
It was a bullet in his head

There's something in the
Something in the way you were
The pain so wrong my friend
Revolution, revolution man
Imagine all the people

On more time and you'll be
Dead
At least I think that's what
They said
Forty days won't break a man
It was a bullet in his head

Listen while I load my gun
He said to me
Something bout a chosen one
It's comin' back to me
Watch him while I taste the
Sun
He said to me
Something bout a chosen one
You'll never be

One last time for your medicine
Swallow hard and take it in
Lucy's in the sky again
Trippin' on her diamonds


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Revolution Man Lyrics as written by Patrick P. Kennison Bryan Wayne Scott

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    And you know the true meaning of the song how? or is that just your opinion? Anyway, since this is my favorite song by UU, I must post something. It seems to me that the song is about a person who's wasted their life away doin drugs (most of Union Underground's songs seem to be about drugs, abuse and addiction). The "One more time and you'll be dead" may mean that if the person takes the drug again he'll either be dead in the literal sense or dead as in they'll never be able to break out of it and will always be of no value to the world. The chorus is kinda weird and I haven't been able to make a connection to most of it, but I think the "Listen while I load my gun" lyric is saying that the person may know that if he does that one more time he'll "die" but either ignores it or doesn't realize what it is. The last verse seems to say that the person did do whatever it was again and is therefore "dead", hence "Lucy's in the sky again". Thats what I picked up, could be wrong

    TitoP1mpon July 26, 2002   Link

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