Letras
In the heat of the summer
While the pavements were burning
The soul of a city was ravaged in the night
After the evening sun was sinking
No need to ask how it started
Why the windows were shattered
Another black kid face down in the road
Whose life did not seem to matter
Down the street they were rumbling
All the tempers were raging
Oh where, oh where were the white silver tongues
Who forgot to listen to the warnings
On and on they were coming
Bricks and bottles were flying
And the loudspeaker drowned like a whispering sound
Compared to the angered emotions
No, no, no, moaned the mayor
That's not the way of the order
Stay in your homes, please leave us alone
We'll be glad to talk in the morning
For shame, for shame, wrote the papers
Why the hurry to your hunger?
Now the rubble is resting on your broken streets
You see what your rage has unraveled
And when the fury was over
Shame was replacing the anger
So wrong, so wrong, but it's gone on so long
We had to make somebody listen
In the heat of the summer
In the heat of the summer
In the heat of the summer
In the heat of the summer