The revolution will not be a shadowrun

[BaronJ]

Just thought I'd post this here, because I was inspired...enjoy (co-post on DSF).

The Revolution will not be an AOL Keyword

The Revolution will not be Televised

The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

You will not be able to stay at home, chummer
You will not be able to jack in, crash IC, and make cred
You will not be able to loose yourself in sims
or burn your brain on BTLs
Because the Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun
The revolution will not be brought to you by Weapons World
with two full clips thrown in
The revolution will not star Holly Brighton
panzer-blastin' into Denver to challenge
Ghostwalker for the right to nuke Atzlan
tossing powerballs and lightning bolts into ravenous blood spirits
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

The Revolution will not be brought to you by Tir Tangire
starring Rinelle ke'Tesrae and Ehran the Scribe
nor Ryan "Drake" Mercury and Kid bloody Stealth
The Revolution will not give trolls smaller horns and
the Revolution will not make mil-spec gear easy to get
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

There will not be Matrix Overwatch when the corps collapse
as the SINless use their 'purchasing power'
to get their fix quicker
KSAF will not break the story 2.3 minutes later or report live from the scene
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

There will not be Trideo of Red Sams
gunning you down in the streets
There will not be trideo of Lone Star
gunning you down in the streets
There will not be trideo of Big-D
liberating the SINners
There will not be stills or flatvid of
Dodger walking through the matrix with Megara on his arm
in matching ebon and silver icons that they have been saving
for just the proper occasion

NERPS, Better-Than-Life and Full-X sims
will no longer be so damnned relevant,
and no will care if Deus compiles the Network
because the world will be saying that the Night of Rage was kinder,
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

There will be no highlights on Shadowland, posted by
Captain Chaos, The Chromed Accountant, or Fastjack,
and no stills of Nadja Davidar giving a slot.
The theme song will not be popular in Club Penumbra,
no matter how jazzed the patrons are.
It won't be performed by a troll thrash band, or
heard at Dante's Inferno; it won't be cached at the Nexus.
The revolution will not be a Shadowrun

The revolution will not be right back after a
message from Mitsuhama, the Universal Brotherhood,
or anything corporate. You won't have to worry
about devil rats in your bedroom, a Shedim on the street,
or a Bug in your toilet bowl
The Revolution will not go better with Rolling Rock
The Revolution will not save you from Gaia
The Revolution will put you in captain's chair mode.

The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun, will not be a Shadowrun
will not be a Shadowrun, will not be a Shadowrun.
The Revolution will be no chip-dream, chummer.
The Revolution will still be live.

[Cazmonster]

That is damn hot!

[steeltoe1926]

Beatuful... I simply can not put it into words enough to decribe how I feel other than WOW

[Jackal]

Still reading it but that's excelent.

[BaronJ]

DV8 has asked me to let him host this on his(?) website, so I figured i'd post the original to my own webpage so y'all can read it if Bulldrek fades...

Or is that i'm caching it somewhere else incase someone burns Bulldrek and Control can't resurrect it.. anyway.

www.technoclave.org/revolution.html

Oh, and thanks for the praise...I hope it doesn't go to my head...

[edit] Oh, be sure to use a standards-compliant browser that accecpts all of CSS, or else it'll look like drek. Opera or Mozilla are nice....

[DV8]

.: Revolution Will Not Be a Shadowrun :.
I was wondering if we could perhaps clean it up a little, punctuation, spelling, etc?

[BaronJ]

Hmm.. what did I misspell?

I was trying to follow the original whitespace scheme, but I do agree that some of the short lines look strange. Go ahead and clean up the punctuation too, but please give me a changelog so I can make sure I get the corrections uploaded to my side too.

[DV8]

I cleaned it up a bit:

The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

You will not be able to stay at home, chummer.
You will not be able to jack in, crash IC, and make cred.
You will not be able to loose yourself in sims,
or burn your brain on BTLs.
Because the Revolution will not be a Shadowrun.

The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun.
The Revolution will not be brought to you by Weapons World
with two full clips thrown in.
The revolution will not star Holly Brighton,
panzer-blastin' into Denver to challenge
Ghostwalker for the right to nuke Atzlan,
tossing powerballs and lightning bolts into ravenous blood spirits.
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun.

The Revolution will not be brought to you by Tir Tangire,
starring Rinelle ke'Tesrae and Ehran the Scribe,
nor Ryan "Drake" Mercury and Kid bloody Stealth.
The Revolution will not give trolls smaller horns and
the Revolution will not make mil-spec gear easy to get.
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun.

There will not be Matrix Overwatch when the corps collapse,
as the SINless use their "purchasing power"
to get their fix quicker.
KSAF will not break the story 2.3 minutes later or report live from the scene.
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun

There will not be trideo of Red Sams
gunning you down in the streets.
There will not be trideo of Lone Star
gunning you down in the streets.
There will not be trideo of Big D
liberating the SINners.
There will not be stills or flatvid of
Dodger walking through the matrix with Magaera on his arm
in matching ebon and silver icons, which they have been saving
for just the proper occasion.

NERPS, Better-Than-Life and Full-X sims
will no longer be so damnned relevant,
and no one will care if Deus compiles the network
because the world will be saying that the Night of Rage was kinder.
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun.

There will be no highlights on Shadowland, posted by
Captain Chaos, The Chromed Accountant, or Fastjack,
and no stills of Nadja Daviar giving a slot.
The theme song will not be popular in Club Penumbra,
no matter how jazzed the patrons are.
It won't be performed by a troll thrash band, or
heard at Dante's Inferno; it won't be cached at the Nexus.
The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun.

The Revolution will not be right back after a
message from Mitsuhama, the Universal Brotherhood,
or anything corporate. You won't have to worry
about devil rats in your bedroom, a Shedim on the street,
or a Bug in your toilet bowl.
The Revolution will not go better with Rolling Rock.
The Revolution will not save you from Gaia.
The Revolution will put you in captain's chair mode.

The Revolution will not be a Shadowrun, will not be a Shadowrun,
will not be a Shadowrun, will not be a Shadowrun.
The Revolution will be no chip-dream, chummer.
The Revolution will still be live.

Does it meet with your aproval?

[BaronJ]

Ah, yes.. those commas and periods.

No, please leave them out. I believe that the lack of end-of-line punctuation was stylistic in the original, and I tried to keep the same 'feel' in mine too. Definately leave out the periods after the refrain of "The Revoultion will not be a Shadowrun"

Looks good otherwise though!