Can't you see by the look in our eyes that
The rock revolution won't be televised.
When she reached maturity according to her father.
She was given his old acoustic guitar.
She taught herself a bunch of chords.
And wrote songs about the oppression of the working class.
And she played them in the park and she sang,
"I will come clean".
Cause the cleaner I get is the messiest yet.
Her name and music were becoming known across the continental
United States for her message and her activism.
The FBI even had a file with her name on it for desturbing the peace
and the security of the nation
Can't you see by the look in our eyes that
The rock revolution won't be televised.
And its truth so it comes as no surprise
that the rock revolution wont be televised.