Song | Riot |
Artist | Dead Kennedys |
Album | Plastic Surgery Disasters |
Rioting◇the unbeatable high | |
Adrenalin shoots your nerves to the sky | |
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow | |
And it's all gonna blow right now#. | |
Now you can smash all the windows that you want | |
All you really need are some friends and a rock | |
Throwing a brick never felt so damn good | |
Smash more glass | |
Scream with a laugh | |
And wallow with the crowds | |
Watch them kicking peoples' ass | |
But you get to the place | |
Where the real slavedrivers live | |
It's walled off by the riot squad | |
Aiming guns right at your head | |
So you turn right around | |
And play right into their hands | |
And set your own neighbourhood | |
Burning to the ground instead | |
Chorus | |
Riot◇the unbeatable high | |
Riot◇shoots your nerves to the sky | |
Riot◇playing into their hands | |
Tomorrow you're homeless | |
Tonight it's a blast | |
Get your kicks in quick | |
They're callin' the national guard | |
Now could be your only chance | |
To torch a police car | |
Climb the roof, kick the siren in | |
And jump and yelp for joy | |
Quickly◇dive back in the crowd | |
Slip away, now don't get caught | |
Let's loot the spiffy hi-fi store | |
Grab as much as you can hold | |
Pray your full arms don't fall off | |
Here comes the owner with a gun | |
Chorus | |
The barricades spring up from nowhere | |
Cops in helmets line the lines | |
Shotguns prod into your bellies | |
The trigger fingers want an excuse | |
Now | |
The raging mob has lost its nerve | |
There's more of us but who goes first | |
No one dares to cross the line | |
The cops know that they've won | |
It's all over but not quite | |
The pigs have just begun to fight | |
They club your heads, kick your teeth | |
Police can riot all that they please | |
Chorus | |
Tomorrow you're homeless | |
Tonight it's a blast |
Rioting the unbeatable high | |
Adrenalin shoots your nerves to the sky | |
Everyone knows this town is gonna blow | |
And it' s all gonna blow right now. | |
Now you can smash all the windows that you want | |
All you really need are some friends and a rock | |
Throwing a brick never felt so damn good | |
Smash more glass | |
Scream with a laugh | |
And wallow with the crowds | |
Watch them kicking peoples' ass | |
But you get to the place | |
Where the real slavedrivers live | |
It' s walled off by the riot squad | |
Aiming guns right at your head | |
So you turn right around | |
And play right into their hands | |
And set your own neighbourhood | |
Burning to the ground instead | |
Chorus | |
Riot the unbeatable high | |
Riot shoots your nerves to the sky | |
Riot playing into their hands | |
Tomorrow you' re homeless | |
Tonight it' s a blast | |
Get your kicks in quick | |
They' re callin' the national guard | |
Now could be your only chance | |
To torch a police car | |
Climb the roof, kick the siren in | |
And jump and yelp for joy | |
Quickly dive back in the crowd | |
Slip away, now don' t get caught | |
Let' s loot the spiffy hifi store | |
Grab as much as you can hold | |
Pray your full arms don' t fall off | |
Here comes the owner with a gun | |
Chorus | |
The barricades spring up from nowhere | |
Cops in helmets line the lines | |
Shotguns prod into your bellies | |
The trigger fingers want an excuse | |
Now | |
The raging mob has lost its nerve | |
There' s more of us but who goes first | |
No one dares to cross the line | |
The cops know that they' ve won | |
It' s all over but not quite | |
The pigs have just begun to fight | |
They club your heads, kick your teeth | |
Police can riot all that they please | |
Chorus | |
Tomorrow you' re homeless | |
Tonight it' s a blast |