The Streets Are Ours - The King Blues

We stood in front of tanks at Tiananmen Square

From Berlin to Chiapas we are everywhere

And over the sirens of the police cars

You can hear us shout «The streets are ours!»

'69 Chicago ushered in a new age

We brought the war home with the days of rage

And over the sirens of the police cars

You can hear us shout «The streets are ours!»

In Seattle we chased out the World Trade Organisation

On Mayday we gave Winston Churchill a mohican

Kept the water for the people in Cochabamba

Demanded autonomy on the dawn of NAFTA

So send in the clowns, someone send in the clowns

The black bloc, the antiFA and the undergrounds

A big, pink, marching samba band

And we’ll take our own route that ain’t pre-planned

From the social centres and the Brighton Schnews

From Indymedia reporting our own news

Over the sirens of the police cars

You can hear us shout «The streets are ours!»

We threw the bomb at Haymarket Square

We fly the black flag everywhere

And over the sirens of the police cars

You can hear us shout «The streets are ours!»