Our Streets

My streets in flames again
fueled by the hype on the news at ten
now another bored kid he wants to join in
go and set alight to a wheelie bin, well

I've had enough of these incidents
but don't insult my intelligence
telling me the riot was a consequence of
criminality and insolence, no.

Cause I've seen the inequality
that you breed in this society
cut-backs that make the people bleed
for your ideology of greed

and you tell me that's the life they choose
well I say they've nothing left to lose
nothing left to lose.

Now there's a riot going on in our streets
And they're bleeding, bleeding
And nothing in our leader's speech
That I can believe in, believe in

Now there's a riot going on in our streets
And they're bleeding, bleeding
And nothing in our leader's speech
That I can believe in, believe in

I hear them chatting on the radio
like parrots, regurgitate the same old
news media bullshit but what do they know
what it feels like to be living below

The poverty line when every time you go
out into the street all around there's dough
but money always moves in a one way flow
from bottom to top, it makes you feel low oh

Oh wah ah oh oh etc

Sooner or later you're going to blow oh, wah ah etc

Now there's a riot going on in our streets
And they're bleeding, bleeding
And nothing in our leader's speech
That I can believe in, believe in

When you gonna stop demonising the youth you failed
Telling us morality must prevail
sticking every kid with a hoodie in jail with no bail
for your fairy tale, when you

force feed them materialism without
giving them a hope of ever making a living
and you wonder why they're finding other ways to get cash
and why you're shop displays they get smashed

And you tell me oh
these single mums their sons they just don't know
right from wrong cos their dad was a no show
that's why they're looting whiskey from a tesco

but you don't know
these words you write you must type on a stereo
two dimensional villain from a tv show