Riotriot Lyrics

Lyric discussion by electric23sand 

Cover art for Riotriot lyrics by Tune-Yards

hmmm.

this is my first impression:

it's in a time of war. she is talking to a cop who arrests her brother as a political prisoner. when she says she wants to make love to cop, she is being sarcastic, alluring the cop into her trust, but she really wants ultra-violence.

she wanders who the cop is and claims he is like an alien in her home/neighborhood.


"if you do nothing you still do something" is like a general statement on apathy and politics.

wonders*

That's a really good interpretation. I never thought about it that way. The song sounds really kind of psychopathic now, like she's taking revenge on this brutal riot-control cop who took her brother away.

"I dreamt of making love to you," like you said, is gaining his trust, luring him in before she starts with the "ultra-violence."

The lines, "Right before it happens/There's no sign at all/One minute blue skies,/Then the rain begins to fall," also tie into this meaning.

"Get real hot, blow your top/Hiding in the alleyway," She seduces...