Anti-Flag – Seattle Was A Riot (Guitar)

[Intro]
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Why must we riot

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Why must we protest

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Just to be heard - by the world?      By the world

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Seattle was a riot, they tried to pin on us

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But we didn't show up, with gas and billy clubs

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An un-armed mass of thousands, just trying to be heard

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But there are no world leaders- that want to hear our words.

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Ohhh.

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   Why must we riot

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   Why must we protest

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   Just to be heard - by the world?

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   Why must we riot

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   Why must we protest

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   Just to be heard - by the world?        go!

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The World Bank's greed and lies, digs graves in 3rd world lands

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And fills them with the remains of exploited workers

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Or displaced native peoples, and destroyed ecosystems

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Under the guise of progress, relief, and tech assistance.

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Ohhh.

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   Why must we riot

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   Why must we protest

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   Just to be heard - by the world?

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   Why must we riot

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   Why must we protest

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   Just to be heard - by the world?        go!

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Since the dawn of history -the few who own control

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Have bent and rewrote history-how they want it to go

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They try to control what we learn-and take away our rights

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'Cause when the masses round the world unite that's a force they can not fight

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   Why must we riot

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   Why must we protest

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   Just to be heard - by the world?

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   Why must we riot

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   Why must we protest

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   Just to be heard - by the world?  world!

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Sitting in what was designated the "Cooperation Zone"

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by Seattle Police Sergeant Richard Goldstein

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They sat heads bowed- listening as the police

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methodically shot pepper spray- one eye at a time-

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into the eyes of their passive brothers and sisters

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Whore like police- playing judge, jury, and

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executioner for their pimp like bosses in the World

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This is not justice. This is not the role of, The

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Such tyranny brings ruling classes crashing to the

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ground and contemporary societies to an end