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Artist: Phil Ochs
Canonical path: /phil-ochs/in-the-heat-of-the-summer
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In The Heat Of The Summer
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In The Heat Of The Summer
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In the heat of the summer
When the pavements were burning
The soul of a city was ravaged in the night
After the city sun was sinkin'
Now no one knows how it started
why the windows were shattered
But deep in the dark, someone set the spark
And then it no longer mattered.
Down the streets they were rumbling
All the tempers were ragin
Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues
Who forgot to listen to the warnings?
On and On come the angry
No longer following reason
And all the stores were the target now
Where just the other day they were buyin
Drunk with the memory of the ghetto
Drunk with the lure of the looting
And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks
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Phil Ochs performs "In The Heat Of The Summer", and this lyric page sits inside the Phil Ochs catalog on LyroVerse.
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