Lyrics for I Predict a Riot as interpreted by brainz

I Predict a Riot Lyrics
Watching the people get lairy
Is not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
And 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
And old Leodiensian
Ah-ah-ah ah-ah, la la lalala la
Ah-ah-ah ah-ah, la la lalala la

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

I tried to get to my taxi
A man in a tracksuit attacked me
He said that he saw it before me
Wants to get things a bit gory
Girls scrabble around 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

Ah-ah-ah ah-ah, la la lalala la
Ah-ah-ah ah-ah, la la lalala la

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

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

Watching the people get lairy
Is not very pretty I tell thee
Walking through town is quite scary
And not very sensible

Ah-ah-ah ah-ah, la la lalala la
Ah-ah-ah ah-ah, la la lalala la

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

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

I predict a riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

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lidz
01-21-2005

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jese i cant believe noones sed anything about this song yet!!!!! whats wrong with you people........ok ill explain it to you.
imagine your best, maddest, sweatiest night out ever on the town in a pub packed with amazing crazy fun people dancing on the bar and then stumbling off and dragging yourself to the fountain in the middle of town and having a water fight while still smiling and snogging some amazingly sexy guy in tight black trousers .....that is this song. listen to it it is the jam mixed with post-modern punk mixed with the clash mixed with sumthing entirely new and never heard before. if you keep still while listening to it you must already be dead. bye!!

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frozen_in_fire
01-21-2005

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this song is soo cool...i love singing along to it

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gotan
01-21-2005

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I am understanding it pk i m.

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sOCS479
01-22-2005

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OMG! last night i met whitey from Kaiser Chiefs outside the Carling accadeny in glasgow and i was chatting 2 him. he felt really bad that me and my mates didnt have a ticket to the nme tour but i got my pic taken next to him and when i told him i liked his " house of kaiser I predict a riot" badge he said "oooh this was a fiver, dya wannit???" i was like "hellYEAH!!!!" so thats the story i have Andrew White's badge. oh yeh this song is brilliant and i cant wait for the album in march!!!!

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crazy_jojo186
01-26-2005

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this song is fabulouso!!! i just love it it makes me all happy and smiley both inside and out.... i just want to get up and shake my whole body about everytime it comes on.... i first saw it on a film called thirteen which also has more great songs on it.....

Any body who likes this song is a nut nut :D:D:D.... wahoo im a nut nut!

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Pude
01-27-2005

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It's about all the clubs closing @ the same time, forcing loads of people out onto the streets of the town (written about Leeds, but same for most places!) @ once. The chavs ("man in a tracksuit") think they're above the Indie people and so try to beat them up, causing a riot.

Fab song!

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frozen_in_fire
01-31-2005

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poor kaiser chiefs...only have these lyrics registered on the site so far...anyone know the "oh my god" lyrics?

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the_libertine
02-21-2005

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Wow this song is fantastisc, I love the Kaiser Chiefs! I know what Pude is saying, and have witnessed similar things myself.

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twrx
02-25-2005

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This song is great Pude has got it completely right here.
Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs says "We wrote it purely for Leeds but people in LA, San Francisco, New York and Russia still identify with it".

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chemicalnova
02-25-2005

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Wow....what a great song!! *dances*

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killfriartuck
02-27-2005

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I LOVE THE KAISER CHIEFS

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boss_2k
03-17-2005

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laidz, i think you've got it all wrong. the songs about exactly the opposite from what you're saying- it concerns the destruction caused by ppl on the trashier sides of nights ur talkin about.

chav scum causing a riot; pikeys flooding the streets at 11; etc etc.

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killers_rock
03-19-2005

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i heart the kaiser chiefs. this is one of my favorite songs of all time. i think its pretty obvious what it means but im taking this oppurotunity (i can never spell that word correctly) to say how much i love them. i love them. thank u.
THE END

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TerminalDescent
03-21-2005

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I think this song is definitely about the chav invasion, the new phenomenon sweeping the UK.
They inexplicably think they're this country's social elite.
The song captures the minute's social climate so perfectly, in the way I think Blur's Girls & Boys did at the time. But it's a universal idea, that the ignorant masses think they are superior- not me being snobbish, I'm not talking education or classes here, just the chav attitude.
I'm just awed by this song.

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TerminalDescent
03-21-2005

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I've changed my mind. Just like that.
I'd put it in the previous post, but there's no edit function.
it's about more than chavs.
It's about a more general social degradation and how you can't even get a proper argument anymore. Arguments aren't listened to, they're shouted over.
Who're Leodiensian and Smeaton, anyone know?

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benjo21
03-22-2005

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Leeds, saturday night/sunday moring. Ironic probably singing 'oh my god' on the way home.
Love this song

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tick tock
03-27-2005

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why does everyone think this song is about some "mad hot sweaty night on the town" or some crap like that? and why do i hear what boss_2k said? it sounds like they're singing about the seedier areas of nightlife.

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linkindude2k1
03-29-2005

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he he, feels great to be from the town this was written about, it's scarily easy to identify with, hope to see KC go on to great things, my friends band played above them once in a local pub, when they were called 'Parma' and not KC, can't really remember much about it though. Anyway, a Leodenesian is a grammar school boy, Smeaton is probably some old friend they're having a dig at, reckon they're getting at bribary and cover ups with the upper classes. Laters

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Judderman
03-30-2005

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Smeaton was an engineer for the 18th centurey that lived in Leeds. He is used in the song to symbolise a more dignified era.

Also I can believe how wrong the first person got the song. Did you listen to the lyrics?

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TheSulphurMan
04-01-2005

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Anti chav song. Have to turn this up full volume on my ipod when i am walking through town centre full of chav scum.

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Libertine1
04-02-2005

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I've seen the Kaiser Chiefs play live!! They were the warm up act for Franz Ferdinand when they were playing in Glasgow and the crowd just went mad for them!! I knew as soon as I saw them they would be big and that was way back in December...I Predict A Riot was the song that stuck out in my mind, it was just so great and the words actually mean somthing :)

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JJJ567
04-09-2005

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This song is so catchy. I need to pick up the album.

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Dannay
04-14-2005

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ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG!

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Missykiwiz
04-29-2005

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This song kicks so much ass. I love the fact that the lyrics' meaning doesn't match the tempo at all, making the song completely senseless (a music quality that only the Brits seem to be able to pull off)!

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Child Of Music
05-10-2005

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^I think I'll just have to agree, you took the words right out of my mouth!

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