I saw - a new generationcoming

Under - the smoke over Oakland

In and out - the streets are breathing

Under - the smoke over Oakland



Chaos disorder looting and loiter

From a blind man praying for some silence - for some silence

???Take a loot on the moon not a foot in the room???

My best intentions always ended in a fight - in a fight

You can send me to hell expose me I'll tell

Just take control and say what they're doing - what they're doing

Two-fifty dead the tribune read Oakland's going off like a bomb!



I saw - a new generation coming

Under - the smoke over Oakland

In and out - the streets are breathing

Under - the smoke over Oakland



Armageddon is coming so yea you better start running

Cause the big wave is coming to the shore - to the shore

No surprise that you see thru the lies

of a system rotten to the core - to the core

High tech surveilence paranoia and violence

Keeping the city at a calm - at a calm

Two-fifty dead the tribune read Oakland's going off like a bomb!



I saw - a new generation coming

Under - the smoke over Oakland

In and out - the streets are breathing

Under - the smoke over Oakland



Man it just don't seem right

You see every time I turn I around it's just the same story and it's like

It just don't seem right and I wonder is it gonna end?Hit it!

Knocking down the doors slogans on the walls

One said fight back yea the system will falL

The police came out with tear gas and flames

Chaos in the city beating them at the game

Don't pay the poll tax the headlines read

Thirty cops beaten another one dead

The fight lasted on through the Brixton night

A thousand angry looters who knew they were right



I saw - a new generation coming

Under - the smoke over Oakland

In and out - the streets are breathing

Under - the smoke over Oakland



I saw - a new generation coming

Under - the smoke over Oakland

In and out - the streets are breathing

Under - the smoke over Oakland