Song | Mad Riot |
Artist | The Tossers |
Album | Long Dim Road |
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 | |
[Chorus – 2x] | |
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 | |
[Chorus – 4x] | |
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 | |
[Chorus – 2x] | |
Riot, riot, riot, riot! |
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 | |
Chorus 2x | |
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 | |
Chorus 4x | |
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 | |
Chorus 2x | |
Riot, riot, riot, riot! |