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Michael Franti and Spearhead - "Yell Fire!" (Full Album Stream)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Performer
Michael Franti
Michael Franti
Lead Vocals
Carl Young
Carl Young
Bass
Dave Shul
Dave Shul
Guitar
Anthony Robustelli
Anthony Robustelli
Keyboards
Manas Itene
Manas Itene
Drums
Robbie Shakespeare
Robbie Shakespeare
Bass
Uziah “Sticky” Thompson
Percussion
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Michael Franti
Michael Franti
Songwriter
Carl Young
Carl Young
Songwriter
Dave Shul
Dave Shul
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Michael Franti
Michael Franti
Producer

Lyrics

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm we come to wake up the snoring
They tellin' you to worry about the future
They tellin' you to never worry about the torture
They tellin' you that you'll never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall Street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mommas
The F-15 is a homocide bomber
TV commercials for a popping pill culture
Drug companies circling like a vulture
An Iraqi babies with a G.I. Joe father
Ten years from now is anybody gonna bother?
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo
Here we come here we come
Fire, yo, yo , yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution
Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolour screen
Everybody tryin' to get their hands on the same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All the riches taken back by needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on the record, you can play us on the CD
All the shit you've given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can never brutalize them
Tell the corporation they can never globalize it
Like Peter Tosh said Legalize it
Girls and boys hear the bass and treble
Rumble in the speakers and it make you wanna rebel
Throw your hands up, take it to another level
And you can never, ever, ever make a deal with the devil
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo
Here we come here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution never come with a warning
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo
Here we come here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm we come to wake up the snoring
Written by: Carl Young, Dave Shul, Michael Franti

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