And all the stores were the target now
Who forgot to listen to the warnings?
On and on come the angry
We'll be glad to talk in the morning"
Where just the other day they were buyin'
"It's not the way of the order
And then it no longer mattered
But deep in the dark, someone set the spark
And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks
Drunk with the memory of the ghetto
And we had to make somebody listen
"No, no, no", moaned the mayor
And the shame was replacing the anger
After the city sun was sinkin'
The soul of a city was ravaged in the night
Drunk with the lure of the looting
Now no one knows how it started
Down the streets they were rumbling
No longer following reason
"Why the hurry to your hunger?
Barricades sadly were risin'
So you see what your rage has unraveled"
Asking, "Are you looking for trouble?"
Why the windows were shattered
Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues
Bricks were heavily flyin'
Oh, stay in your homes, please leave us alone
So wrong, so wrong, but we've been down so long
And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin' sound
And when the fury was over
Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets
When compared to the angered emotions
All the tempers were ragin'
"For shame, for shame", wrote the papers
