In the Heat of the Summer

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