Motor City Is Burning

Lyrics

[Intro] Brothers and sisters, I wanna tell you something I hear a lot of talk by a lot of honkeys, shit that love money Tell me they're high society But I'll let you know something If you ask me, this is the high society! This is the high society! Ooh [Chorus] Ya know the Motor City burning, babe There ain't a thing in the world they can do Ya know the Motor City's burning, people But ain't a thing that white society can do [Verse 1] My home town burning down to the ground A-worser than Vietnam, let me tell you how it started here It started on 12th and Clairmount that morning It made the, the beat cops all jump and shout I said, it started on 12th and Clairmount that morning It made the, the pigs in the street a-freak out The fire wagons kept comin', baby A-but the Black Panther snipers wouldn't let them put it out, wouldn't let them put it out, wouldn't let them put it out, ow [Guitar Solo] Get it on [Verse 2] Well, there's fire bombs bursting all around me, people You know there were soldiers standing everywhere I said there was fire bombs bursting all around me, baby Ya know there was National Guard everywhere I can hear my people screaming A-sirens fill the air, fill the air, fill the air, fill the air, baby, yeah [Guitar Solo] [Verse 3] Your mama and papa don't know what the trouble is You see, they don't know what it's all about I said, your mama and papa don't know what the trouble is, baby They just can't see what it's all about Get the news, read the newspapers, baby You just get out there in the street and check it out, ah, yeah [Guitar Solo] [Chorus] I said the Motor City's burning, people I ain't hanging 'round to fight it out I said-a the Motor City's burning, people You best not hang around to fight it out [Verse 4] Well, I'm taking my wife and my people And they're on TV, yeah, yeah Yeah well, just before I go, baby, I wanna go down, there's fireman's on the street, people all around now I guess it's true, I'd just like to strike a match for freedom myself, yeah I may be a white boy, but I can be bad, too, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah Yes, it's true now, yes, it's true now, I said [Guitar Solo] Yeah Burn, yeah-yeah Now let it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Now baby, now baby, yeah Yeah, yeah [Outro] Yes, let it all burn! Let it all burn! (Let it all burn!) Let it all burn!