[Verse 1]
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April 26th, 1992
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There was a riot on the streets, tell me, where were you?
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While you were sitting home, watching your TV
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While I was participatin' in some anarchy
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First spot we hit it was my liquor store
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I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
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With red lights flashing, time to retire
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And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
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Next stop we hit it was the music shop
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It only took one brick to make that window drop
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Finally, we got our own P.A
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Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today? Hey
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Homicide, never doin' no time
[Verse 2]
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When we returned to the pad to unload everything
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It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings
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So, once again, we filled the van until it was full
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Since that day, my living room's been much more comfortable
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'Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here
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It's getting hotter, and hotter and harder, each and every year
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Some kids went in a store with their mother
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I saw her when she came out, she was getting some Pampers
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They said it was for the black man
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They said it was for the Mexican, and not for the white man
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But if you look at the street, it wasn't about Rodney King
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And this fucked up situation, and these fucked up police
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It's about coming up and staying on top
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And screaming, "187 on a motherfuckin' cop"
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It's not in the paper, it's on the wall
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National Guard, Smoke from all around
[Verse 3]
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Let it burn, wanna let it burn
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Wanna let it burn
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Wanna, wanna let it burn
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Riots on the streets of Miami
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Woah, riots on the streets of Chicago
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On the streets of Long Beach
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And San Francisco, Boise, Idaho
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Riots on the streets of Kansas City
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Salt Lake, Huntington Beach, California
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Arcada, Clarkston, Michigan
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Fountain Valley, Texas, Barstow (Let's do this every year
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Bear Mountain, Victorville (Twice a Year)
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Eugene, OR, Eureka, CA (Let it burn, let it burn)
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Hesperia (Won't ya let it burn, won't'cha, won't'cha let it burn?)
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Santa Barbara, Cuyamca, Nevada, (Let it burn)
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Phoenix, Arizona
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San Diego, Lakeland, Florida (Won't you let it burn?)
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