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‘LOST’ WORLD: Daniella Alonso, as Nora, can’t get shot. She’s got a hot romance still going on. (Brownie Harris/NBC)

Not to prove the counter-cultural lyrics wrong, but the “Revolution” will be televised — for a second season starting tonight as a matter of fact.

As one of NBC’s few hit scripted series, J J Abrams’ “Revolution,” an edge-of-the-apocalypse show, explodes into the season premiere tonight with nonstop pyro-technics, as the small band of rebels continues to fight off the Monroe government.

For a world without power, there is more firepower here than in “G.I. Joe” as bomb-and-machine-gun-equipped Monroe choppers attack the rebels causing massive death and destruction.

If you watched last year, you know that teenage Charlie (Tracy Spirdakos) had to find her brother Danny (Graham Rogers) after he was captured for unknown reasons by the militia after the evil Captain Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito), of the Monroe Republic came riding into their encampment.

Danny, not the brightest bulb in the tree, started shooting at militia leaders after dad told him not to, which resulted in his father’s death. But that still doesn’t explain why the militia needed to kidnap Danny alive. What is it about the kid that was so important?

All is revealed in the last five minutes of tonight’s season premiere.

The thing is, after watching this series, I always have the feeling that it all has a very familiar ring. And no, that’s not because it’s reminiscent of Abrams’ “Lost.” It’s because along with “The Hunger Games,” the show is like a pyro-technic version of “The Walking Dead” without the zombies.

In fact, on tonight’s episode, the Commander (David Lyons) says they are next going to head for Georgia of all places.

Man! This state hasn’t seen so many battles since the Civil War.

We’re also presented with many similar plot points and similar characters, too. In place of the Governor, there’s the Commander.

In place of Lori and her secret affair with Shane, “Revolution’s” got Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) who is trying to redeem herself with her kids. We peek into her past with Miles (Billy Burke) even as his romance is heating up Nora (Daniella Alonso).

(Remember when there was a hint — albeit a slight one— that Shane and Andrea, too, were going to move beyond simply shooting zombies together?)

All the similarities aside, “Revolution” can and does stand on its own in a “Hunger Games” sort of way with Charlie (Rachel’s daughter, who looks like a teenaged Uma Thurman) being the best fighter and her brother as a brave, but weaker link.

Some of the dialogue is flat-out silly: “They can’t do to us what the Germans, Russians and al Qaeda couldn’t. If we go down, we go down as Americans!” But even that’s forgivable if you’re a die-hard fan.

If you were hanging from a cliff after last season’s finale, you won’t be off the cliff just yet. But at least you’ll have more of your questions answered than you hoped for.

This time Abrams is giving us more mirror and less smoke (monster) — and that’s a good thing.