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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
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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
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All the tempers were ragin
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Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues
              G5            D5
Who forgot to listen to the warnings?

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On and On come the angry 
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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
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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.
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"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.
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"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 
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Bricks were heavily flyin 
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And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin' sound
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when compared to the angered emotions   

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And when the fury was over
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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......