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In the heat of the summer

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When the pavements were burning

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The soul of a city was ravaged in the night

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After the city sun was sinkin'

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Now no one knows how it started

F a

Why the windows were shattered

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But deep in the dark, someone set the spark

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And then it no longer mattered.

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Down the streets they were rumbling

F a

All the tempers were ragin

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Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues

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Who forgot to listen to the warnings?

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F a

No longer following reason

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And all the stores were the target now

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Where just the other day they were buyin

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Drunk with the memory of the ghetto

F a

Drunk with the lure of the looting

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And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks

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Asking, are you looking for trouble?

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No, no, no, moaned the mayor.

F a

It's not the way of the order.

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Oh stay in your homes, please leave us alone

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We'll be glad to talk in the morning.

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For shame, for shame, wrote the papers.

F a

Why the hurry to your hunger?

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Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets

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So you see what your rage has unraveled.

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Baricades sadly were risin

F a

Bricks were heavily flyin

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And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin' sound

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And when the fury was over

F a

And the shame was replacing the anger.

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So wrong, so wrong, but we've been down so long

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And we had to make somebody listen

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In the heat of the summer......