Quiet Riot

We riot in our quiet streets Suburban scum, we dumb elites Lob angry emails, texts and tweets While coppers stroll by on their beats We riot in our quiet streets We riot in our quiet streets With nobody to photo-take And no political earthquake No Arab Spring. No windows break While dieting, for Heaven's sake We riot in our quiet streets We riot in our quiet streets While reading Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats We pay for stuff and get receipts And chewing gum and eating sweets We riot in our quiet streets While mums are baking birthday cake And bread-fed ducks park on the lake Our home-grown revolution's fake So knowing there's no life at stake We riot in our quiet streets Though no one gets up from their seats While TV stations screen repeats But ruled by liars, thieves and cheats We riot in our quiet streets Then tidy up what mess we make So all's shipshape when we next wake And those who don't take part partake And though the cause now seems opaque We riot in our quiet streets While, out at sea, we're losing fleets And daily learn of new defeats Though all we hang are laundered sheets And when things burn, it's by mistake Black smoke from barbecuing steak We mow the lawn. We hoe. We rake The boredom makes us bellyache We riot in our quiet streets Where, like some shark, the darkness eats And sinks its teeth in human meats So peace won't come to these retreats We riot in our quiet streets Where Crimewatch keeps us all awake Its nightmares stories make us shake And rattle us just like a snake Or vampire with a thirst to slake We riot in our quiet streets Then bag up shit the dog excretes And sit and beg like him for treats We snarling sheep, our barks are bleats We riot in our quiet streets While, out at sea, we're losing fleets And daily learn of new defeats Though all we hang are laundered sheets We riot in our quiet streets And when things burn, it's by mistake Black smoke from barbecuing steak We mow the lawn. We hoe. We rake The boredom makes us bellyache We riot in our quiet streets Where, like some shark, the darkness eats And sinks its teeth in human meats So peace won't come to these retreats We riot in our quiet streets Where Crimewatch keeps us all awake Its nightmares stories make us shake And rattle us just like a snake Or vampire with a thirst to slake We riot in our quiet streets Then bag up shit the dog excretes And sit and beg like him for treats We snarling sheep, our barks are bleats We riot in our quiet streets