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Artist/Band: Judy Collins
Lyrics for Song: In The Heat Of The Summer
Lyrics for Album: Introducing [2006]



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

Asking, ";Are you looking for trouble?";



"No, no, no," moaned the mayor.

"It's not the way of the order.

"Oh stay in your homes, please leave us alone

"We'll be glad to talk in the morning."



"For shame, for shame," wrote the papers.

"Why the hurry to your hunger?

"Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets

"So you see what your rage has unraveled."



Baricades sadly were risin'

Bricks were heavily flyin'

And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin' sound

When compared to the angered emotions



And when the fury was over

And the Shame was replacing the anger.

So wrong, so wrong, but we've been down so long

And we had to make somebody listen

In the heat of the summer


Album Lyrics: Introducing [2006]


Judy Collins
"Introducing [2006]"


1. Farewell To Tarwathie
2. Maid Of Constant Sorrow
3. Since You Asked
4. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
5. In The Heat Of The Summer
6. Suzanne