Revolution

Album: Back Home (2005)
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  • Most songs called "Revolution" are pretty intense (especially the one from The Beatles), but this one is a lot more breezy, taking aim at a person who is never happy with the way of the world but won't do anything to change it.

    Clapton didn't put much thought into the lyric. "I just started making up crazy words," he explained. "It's not really a statement about anything. I don't know what it is." >>>
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    DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation
  • Clapton wrote this song with Simon Climie, a fellow Englishman who played keyboards on the album. Climie's other co-writes include "Invincible" by Pat Benatar and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" by Aretha Franklin.

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