Trouble Every Day

In context with the complicit support of the government, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organized crime.
Our reaction was to march and wave banners and then bail them out. These kids would have to riot and steal every night for a year to run up a bill equivalent to the value of non-paid tax big business has ‘avoided’ out of the economy this year alone.
They may not articulate their grievances like the politicians that condemn them but this is absolutely political. As for the ‘mindless violence’… is there anything more mindless than the British taxpayer quietly paying back the debts of others while contributing bullets to conflicts that we have absolutely no understanding of?
It’s mad, sad and scary when we have to take to the streets to defend our homes and businesses from angry thieving kids, but where are the police and what justice is ever done when the mob is dressed in pinstripes?
--Massive Attack's Facebook page

you know we got to
sit around at home
and watch this thing begin
but i'll bet there won't
be many alive
to see it really end
beause the fire in the street
ain't like the fire in the heart
and in the eyes
of all these people
don't you know that
this could start
on any street in any town
in any state if any clown
decides that now's
the time to fight
for some ideal he thinks is right
and if a million more agree
there ain't no Great Society
as it applies
to you and me
our country isn't free
and the law
refuses to see
if all that you
can ever be
is just a lousy janitor
unless your uncle owns a store
you know that
five in every four
just won't amount
to nothin' more
gonna watch the rats go across the floor
and make up songs about being poor
blow your harmonica, son!

--Mothers of Invention
from Trouble Every Day