Raining Revolution - Arrested Development

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Raining Revolution Lyrics

This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here tonight
to give thanks to ithe rain, so brothers and sisters please put down your
umbrellas, you won't be needing those today...
Look to the clouds with the most rain coming from it, for without the
rain there's no me and there's no you...
I said a drip-drop, a drip-drop, drip-drop
viva bum bum bum drip-drop ...

Let it rain, let it rain, let God's water feed me
The water of life, mentally rinsing me, physically drenching me
Most are frowning upon your arrival
but I need you for survival
And when you fall on my community
I run outside to properly
greet you
Let it rain, take my pain, I'm glad to meet you
Fill my eyes with a colorful rainbow
Every drop hits me, fills me
with an unmeasurable amount of security
knowing my God acknowledges me
as if each drop of rain is aimed toward me
my Lord: Thanks for life [Thanks for my rain]
my Lord: Thanks for life [Thanks for my rain]

[CHORUS:]
It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions

It's raining revolution (7x)

I struttle strut thru the ghetto
The rain this time I feel is mental
The goal of this rain I feel is spiritual
Saw thru the eyes of the inflicted people
Their eyes are hard as a million thombstones
marked with the names of the millions of kin thrown
to the dust that gave them their colored skin
Fade to black is the scene they're embalmed in
The rain many nights have witnessed her
Receiving the sperm of a brother into a sister
and blessed that life to guaranteed existence
A conscious baby for a black resistance
I feel the rain enhances the revolution
and reminds us of a spiritual solution
and reminds us of an unnatural supernatural solu-lu-lu-lution

[CHORUS]

Lost between reality and psychology. 1990's mentality is described
by the honorable thruth message which is 'True Knowledge Is So Priceless'
which is so true...
Rain, rain, stay here! Wow!
Love that power!
Brothers and sisters -haha-
Raise your hands up high and let me see the colors of your beautiful skin
Now the ceremony begins
Lord, let thet heavenly rains cleanse
Run into your nearest rainbow
to grab, hold, to ride on
Each color, learn it! The importance of each color... oh yeah
Let it rain (repeats till end)
haha
yes
oh yeah

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Arrested Development is an Afrocentric Hip-Hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s.

It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal. Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the top ten. The group won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and Best New Artist, and were also Band of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine. Their 1994 follow-up Zingalamaduni, which did very well with some critics but was panned by many others, sold poorly. After the group broke up in 1996, Speech released a solo album, but sales were poor. The group reunited in 2000 (sans Headliner) and has been touring and releasing records via Speech's Vagabond Productions and Speech Music. While Arrested Development has struggled to regain a following in the U.S., they have met moderate, consistent success in Japan.

Although she was never an official member of the band (and frequently clashed with Speech), the haunting voice behind "Tennessee", Dionne Farris, released a successful solo album in 1994, Wild Seed-Wild Flower. The album spawned the hit single, "I Know".

In November 2003, the group sued the FOX network over their TV show Arrested Development. The suit is referenced in the Arrested Development episode "Motherboy XXX."

In June 2005, the group won the first round of NBC's television series contest Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Tennessee" and covering Los Lonely Boys' "Heaven."

Baba Oje died in October 2018, aged 87. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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