Nuadha's Tale

Ignorance can be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it. -Thomas Jefferson

Monday, April 07, 2003

Lilly's Song
Patrick's not the only one still trying to think of songs for his characters. I finally thought of Lilly's:


The Revolution Will Not Be Televized
by Gil Scott-Heron, 1972

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.

The revolution will not be televised.

More lyrics here


It's a great song. It's about black/white relations in the Seventies, but its just as applicable to Lilly's mutant-rights activism and captures the spirit of her character. If she were in the X-Men comics, she'd probably work with Magneto. She has seen the worst of how man treats his fellow man, just because he's different...a mutant. She leads up a resistance movement that regularly breaks mutants out of government detention (it's that bad in Neil's Champions Universe) and helps them escape to Canada.

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