Revolution Man

good song

Definately the absolute best song on their debut albumn, The Union Underground writes another song of a wasted life.

I can't believe that noone knows the true meaning of this song. It is about the god of music John Lennon!

Example lyrics: It was a bullet in his head, Imagine all the people, Lucy's in the sky again trippin' on her diamonds.

Also the song is called Revolution man, as in the Beatles song written by Lennon "Revolution"

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

All this crap about this beatle and that beatle better end right now. He has "Lucy's in the sky..." in there because it's easy to follow and it is creative, not because Lennon's giving us an Education in Rebellion. Anyway... this is definitely my favorite song by the Union.

Actually, I think it's about the guy who killed John Lennon: "Listen while I load my gun He said to me" - Sorta self-explanatory. Lennon's killer pulling his gun. "Something 'bout a chosen one It's comin' back to me" - Lennon being one of the most influential musicians ever, chosen one. "Watch him while I taste the sun" - Not sure about this one, I'm thinking that Lennon is high. "He said to me Something 'bout a chosen one You'll never be" - Through ending Lennon's life, he took away the chosen one.

"Forty days won't break a man It was a bullet in his head" - Comparing Lennon to Jesus. I think he's saying that Lennon was the biggest rock star in the world, and his lifestyle didn't kill him. Instead, a bullet did.

In my opinion, Revolution Man refers to Lennon's killer. And I saw an interview with UU's singer about 4 years ago and he said it was about Lennon, but I can't remember exactly what he said. So this is my theory...

I definitely think this song has something to do w/ Lennon also-- mainly because of "Lucy's in the sky again, trippin on her diamonds" and also a quote from Imagine: "Imagine all the people". When I first heard this song, I noticed that quote from Imagine and found it curious and now I really do think it has to do w/ Lennon but I think it might be talking about other things too-- like Jesus and stuff.

youve got to be retarded to not know that this whole song was refferring to john lennon.(ex)

forty days wont break a man john lennon died at age 40

imagine all the people obvious refference to his most popular song

lucy in the sky again, tripping on her dimonds once again an obvious refference to lucy in the sky

favorite song on the cd here...

it seems like he's tryin to put a texas spin on the lennon shooting...

its such a unique perspective to write about....through the eyes of pure evil.

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