Riot, riot, riot crossed this land In pork pie hats and denim masks and furious knife clutched hands It was a bank holiday for languages lost Being armed to the teeth to face this curse If you’ve always used establishment We’ve always used piss off to change the intonation in this verse As curlew dies and structures burn laid barren as then night falls Wandering zombies smoldering from the top See their dead in our burned out halls
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When all is done special branch comes through With police finish off the rest of the best Evacuated barren and I now know who’s dead As parliament wakes and yawns deep from the chest Well, and the sun burns up the night And the boot heels click And the engines burn and John Major gets sick And American soldiers station themselves Round Serbian oil wells And four course five star dinners down by the wakening church’s bells
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Well, we don’t believe this way has worked We’ll burn down this mind set Burning all your American illusions up We’ll show you what, where and when we’re at Well, almost everyone knows what homelessness is And everyone know ‘bout death And you can’t give morals onto either one, Or justify it or come back and say it was worth the test Well, when you give death – you get death back That’s the way the cycle works Well, when you’ve taken - you get things taken from you That’s situational, that’s your friends you’ve kept while doing the dirt