Holiday in Hell

Black people got a lot of problems

But they don't mind throwing a brick

White people go to school

Where they teach you how to be thick

White Riot, one of the 45s from the '70s that prevented me walking around in a wrinkled Led Zeppelin t-shirt the rest of my life, seem an unlikely set of lyrics to precede a brief description of what I feel about what the fuck is going on in 2009. Hell, Strummer and his doped up, noisy buddies got boring faster than a South Carolina Governor's marriage after the release of their first single.

And everybody's doing

Just what they're told to

And nobody wants

To go to jail

Shit was fucked up in '76 - no question about it. But shit is double fucked up in '09. There is not a corner of our planet that is not confronting the sort of evil that would make Satan shit his pants and run. That's right motherfuckers - Hell is a Holiday, book your tickets today.

All the power's in the hands

Of people rich enough to buy it

While we walk the street

Too chicken to even try it

Shit is so double fucked up the people with power in their hands are even talking about giving up on the Prohibition of the drugs people like so much more than they like beer. I cannot believe it - just when the war on drugs was showing promise. Pardon my sarcasm. Every motherfucker who was ever in favour of Drug Prohibition should have their name added to the list of ingredients on a fresh package of Soylent Green. Or better yet, let's send the motherfuckers to Iran.

Are you taking over

Or are you taking orders?

Are you going backwards?

Or are you going forwards?

Maybe I am just upset because Farrah Fawcett is dead. Keep taking your vitamins Anne Murray. The world needs to hear you sweetly singing White Riot more than ever.

White riot - I wanna riot

White riot - a riot of my own

White riot - I wanna riot

White riot - a riot of my own