The Undercover Hippy - Our Streets [Live acoustic - UK RIOTS] descargar videos gratis

I wrote this song in response to the blinkered and self-interested way in which the government and right wing media reacted to the recent riots that happened across our country. Now that the pundits have mostly stopped frothing at the mouth, perhaps we can start to have a look at the real underlying causes of the riots, and no, it wasn't the single mums' fault... :)

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Billy Rowan, aka The Undercover Hippy, is definitely not your average singer songwriter. His music brings together acoustic guitar, soulful vocals, infectious reggae rhythms, and the lyrical delivery of a skilled mc. After 7 years spent DJ’ing and MC’ing on the Drum & Bass circuit, Billy swapped the decks for a guitar and started out as a solo act in 2007.

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Lyrics:

My streets in flames again

fueled by the hype on the news at ten

now another bored kid he wants to join in

go and set alight to a wheelie bin, well

I've had enough of these incidents

but don't insult my intelligence

telling me the riot was a consequence of

criminality and insolence, no.

Cause I've seen the inequality

that you breed in this society

cut-backs that make the people bleed

for your ideology of greed

and you tell me that's the life they choose

well I say they've nothing left to lose

nothing left to lose.

CHORUS:

Now there's a riot going on in our streets

And they're bleeding, bleeding

And nothing in our leader's speech

That I can believe in, believe in

X2

I hear them chatting on the radio

like parrots, regurgitate the same old

news media bullshit but what do they know

what it feels like to be living below

The poverty line when every time you go

out into the street all around there's dough

but money always moves in a one way flow

from bottom to top, it makes you feel low oh

Oh wah ah oh oh etc

Sooner or later you're going to blow oh, wah ah etc

CHORUS

When you gonna stop demonising the youth you failed

Telling us morality must prevail

sticking every kid with a hoodie in jail with no bail

for your fairy tale, when you

force feed them materialism without

giving them a hope of ever making a living

and you wonder why they're finding other ways to get cash

and why you're shop displays they get smashed

And you tell me oh

these single mums their sons they just don't know

right from wrong cos their dad was a no show

that's why they're looting whiskey from a tesco

but you don't know

these words you write you must type on a stereo

two dimensional villain from a tv show

CHORUS