Revolution — The Beatles
There are some technicalities here. Revolution came out as a single, with a harder edge and exploding with distortion. Then, it was put on The White Album, but with a slightly softer sound, though still rollicking and filled with the same message to the ever more violent political activists that sought his approval. Lennon made sure distinguish between the two songs, by adding the 1 to this album version.
There is one more important discrepancy between the two, regarding one little world. In Revolution, the hard edged single, he sings “When you talk about destruction/don’t you know that you can count me out.” In the softer album version, Revolution 1, he adds the word “in” after the lyric, because he was undecided about how he felt about the song’s message.
Where it gets confusing is that the single came out after the album, but was recorded first. So it seemed that he was actually more supportive of violence in the name of peace and then decided against it. But this version seems to be the louder, more raucous version, and he says the word “in”. Because it’s undated, it’s anyone’s guess.
Either way, we would see that later in his life, he was a complete advocate for peace, rendering it a bit moot.
