Jim Adams is the host for Song Lyric Sunday. This week’s theme is Alternative Rock.

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Today’s alternative rock pick is the Kaiser Chiefs, and that’s just one of their genre tags, along with Indie-pop, Brit-pop and power-pop. Aren’t labels a fun thing?

Anyhoo, the Chiefs are a British band that formed in Leeds in 2002. They are still banging out their Indie-Brit-Power-Alternative rock, but I’m choosing a track from their 2005 album, Employment.

I Predict a Riot is one of the group’s signature songs and describes the dangers of a drunken night out.

Stay sober and stay safe, my friends!

Watching the people get lairy
It’s not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
It’s not very sensible either
A friend of a friend he got beaten
He looked the wrong way at a policeman
Would never have happened to Smeaton
An Old Leodensian

La… la, la, la, la, la, ah… la, la, la, la, la

I predict a riot [x 4]

I tried to get to my taxi
The man in a tracksuit attacks me
He said that he saw it before me
And wants to get things a bit gory
Girls scrabble ’round with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn’t for chip fat they’d be frozen
They’re not very sensible

La… la, la, la, la, la. ah… la, la, la, la, la

I predict a riot [x4]

And if there’s anybody left in here
That doesn’t want to be out there, oh

Watching the people get lairy
It’s not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
Not very sensible

La… la, la, la, la, la, ah… la, la, la, la, la

I predict a riot [x4]

And if there’s anybody left in here
That doesn’t want to be out there

I predict a riot [x4]

Songwriters: James Rix, Andrew White, Charles Wilson, Nicholas Baines & Nicholas Hodgson
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