its not an anti-riot or a pro-riot song really. its more about confusion and the stae of mind the populus have to be in before a riot can start; that is people have to be very disorientated and abused with only rioting left to them.
in riots shit gets fucked up and no-one really gets any one message across so what they're saying is that riots are just expressions of raw emoiton and often the people in those riots dont know why this energy is comming out of them, but mad shit happens like people getting "the beat down" etc and its chaotic.
"oh, yeah, i wanna riot" but why? he doesnt know and neither do we, when a riot happens it's because it needs to happen and no-one is ever really sure why it started in the first place.
oh and im sure "city of the dead" and infact "i wanna riot" are clash references. somehow rancid never get bored of them and neither do i...
ans isnt this supposed to be a collaboration with Sublime? when was it recorded?
its not an anti-riot or a pro-riot song really. its more about confusion and the stae of mind the populus have to be in before a riot can start; that is people have to be very disorientated and abused with only rioting left to them. in riots shit gets fucked up and no-one really gets any one message across so what they're saying is that riots are just expressions of raw emoiton and often the people in those riots dont know why this energy is comming out of them, but mad shit happens like people getting "the beat down" etc and its chaotic.
"oh, yeah, i wanna riot" but why? he doesnt know and neither do we, when a riot happens it's because it needs to happen and no-one is ever really sure why it started in the first place.
oh and im sure "city of the dead" and infact "i wanna riot" are clash references. somehow rancid never get bored of them and neither do i...
ans isnt this supposed to be a collaboration with Sublime? when was it recorded?