You will not be able to stay home, hacker.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on MySpace and skip,
Skip out for espresso during reloads,
Because the revolution will not be on YouTube.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Microsoft Research Group and will not star James
Gosling and Guy Steele or Homer and Marge.
The revolution will not give your startup sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the bugs.
The revolution will not make your code look
better, because the revolution will not be on YouTube, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and The Woz
dumpster diving for access codes behind a featureless building,
or trying to carry those motherboards on a stolen SegWay.
Fox News will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be on YouTube.

There will be no pictures of pigs arresting
hackers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs arresting
hackers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of ESR being
run off the Firing Range on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Richard
Stallman strolling through Redmond in a Free
Software tee shirt that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

C++, J2EE, and PL
SQL will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Gil finally gets down with
Catherine on Crime Scene Investigation because hackers
will be in the Net looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be on YouTube.

There will be no highlights on the Yahoo
news and no pictures of Afghanistan
liberationists and Angelina Jolie blowing her nose.
The interfaces will not be designed by Ray Ozzie,
Bill Gates, nor written by Charles Simonyi,
Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Peter Norvig, or Kleiner Perkins
The revolution will not be on YouTube.

The revolution will not appear on ad banners
about enterprise software, enterprise integration, or enterprise sales.
You will not have to worry about a Paperclip in your
window, a Duke in your server, or the Prophet in your database.
The revolution will not go better with FUD.
The revolution will not dumb down the code that may confuse a monkey.
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.

The revolution will not be on YouTube, will not be on YouTube,
will not be on YouTube, will not be on YouTube.
The revolution will be no MPEG, hackers;
The revolution will be live.

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