Conutry Joe and the Fish - Fire in the City

Country Joe and the Fish - Fire in the City (really songs by Peter Krug it was just on the B side to one of Country Joe and the Fish EP's (part of the "The First Three EPs") Videos are of Riots from greece, Berlin, Swiss, the G20 in Pit (usa)

Lyrics:
Sit at your window, ask yourself why
The red glow of fire lights up the night sky
Far below where the sirens scream through the black
[Cloud] streets re-echo with a sharp rifle's crack
Down there where the screaming mob surge like the sea
In broken glass, gasoline, flying debris
The troopers press forwards with bayonets fixed
Into the shower of bottles and bricks

What are the confused thoughts that race through your brain
At the sight of a city gone completely insane

Oh how can I tell you in terms black and white
Why there's fire in the city tonight

I can't talk to you, you've never been down there
In the hate haunted canyons of human despair
You've never been back of the invisible wall
Through the sickening stench of a tenement hall
You've never walked down the trash littered streets
Seen fear and suspicion on the faces you meet
Where your presence brings silence to the children at play
Angry eyes watch from a dark passageway
The women fall silent and stare as you pass
On a street without trees, without flowers or grass

Where the volcano slumbers and the dark eyes indict
There's fire in the city tonight

In your chrome plated, air conditioned, white universe
In your own hand-made heaven you're free from the curse
I know by your face that you don't know the sound
Of a club that is beating a man to the ground
As his friends stand by helpless, their fists clenched tight
And they wait through the years for a night like tonight
You've never known the hunger, you've never known the fear
Like running for cover when the police are near
Be part of a world that wants no part of you
Where the laws are deceitful and justice untrue
Where your home is a prison, your skin your disgrace
And the gates of a nation swing shut in your face

Condemned unto darkness, forbidden the light
There's fire in the city tonight

And this is the price of the wrong that's been done
A [?] that rages on past the sun
Like the roar of a river that's been too long held back
Striking out blindly in wanton attack
Smashing and burning the whole city wide
Onward and onward in mad suicide
Reaping the seeds that for years have been sown
Striking out blind in a world not their own
A mad twirling cyclone of hate against hate
In this hour of darkness, friends, pray it's not too late

For as long as the wall stands between black and white
There'll be fire in the city all night.

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Detroit 1967... Lyrics and music by Peter Krug . . . Cincinnatti 2001; WATTS, rODNEY kING; nEWARK, 1967, nEW yORK cITY, 1863 . . .

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Detroit 1967... Lyrics and music by Peter Krug . . . Cincinnatti 2001