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Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot

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Album: Employment
Released: 2005

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

[Chorus]
I Predict A Riot, I predict a riot
I predict a riot, I predict a riot

I tried to get in 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 run around with no clothes on
To borrow a pound for a condom
If it wasn't for chip fat, well they'd be frozen
They're not very sensible

[Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

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

[Chorus]

Writer/s: HODGSON, NICHOLAS / WILSON, CHARLES RICHARD / RIX, JAMES / BAINES, NICHOLAS / WHITE, ANDREW ROBERT
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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I Predict A Riot

This song refers to closing time (11pm) in pubs in the UK, which means people being very drunk and lots of fights. Closing time was eventually moved back in the UK, which spread out the drunkenness.

The song depicts some colorful British characters; "Man in a tracksuit attacks me," "Girls run around with no clothes on, to borrow a pound for a condom, if it wasn't for chip fat, well they'd be frozen."

"Lairy" is British slang for rough and abusive.

The line, "Would never have happened to Smeaton" refers to John Smeaton High School in Leeds, where the band comes from. John Smeaton (1724-1792) was a civil engineer from Leeds.

The Kaiser Chiefs are from Leeds and as Leeds United supporters they named themselves after former Leeds player Lucas Radebbe's club in South Africa.

Kaiser Chiefs played this at Live 8, where they opened the US show. Live 8 was a series of concerts Bob Geldof put together to spur activism in light of the G8 Summit.

In the Guardian newspaper, February 24 2006, Kaiser Chiefs drummer Nick Hodgson said: "I used to DJ with my friend Nick at the Cockpit in Leeds. We'd drive home past a big nightclub and there were always lots of police and people fighting. I went home and wrote the riff on the piano and started singing some words. It says: 'A friend of a friend, he got beaten.' That was a friend of Nick the DJ. At our club night, Pigs, we had a band on, Black Wire. They were going mad and so were the crowd. You could see the bouncers moving in and I said to the club's boss, 'I predict a riot.' The structure was there, then everyone invented their own parts. Ricky [Wilson] wrote the second verse. Smeaton was John Smeaton, a leading figure in the development of Leeds; an 'Old Leodensian' is someone from Leeds. We thought maybe it was too punky but our manager thought it sounded like 10cc meets the Clash. I was pleased with that. When you play a song to other people you can tell if it's good or bad."

In an interview with NME, lead singer Ricky Wilson explained the only way to write a universal song is to not try to write a universal song: "It's weird because people get it when you write personally. If we'd have tried to write a song about being at a club and having a time, it wouldn't work because it wouldn't be us. So, we've gone back to that on this record, which is don't worry about the outside world; be yourself, and the rest will fall into place."

Kaiser Chiefs - Bows & Arrows

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Album: Education, Education, Education & War
Released: 2014

Bows & Arrows Lyrics

Hold onto your hearts, if you can
It's been the coldest year since records began
And now the sun is coming up again in no man's land

So let's go, into tomorrow
Together fighting
We're bows and arrows!

You and me on the front line
You and me, every time
It's always you and me, we're bows and arrows
You!

Well I'm not waiting for no one, I'm waiting for you!
Well I'm not waiting for no one, I'm waiting for you!
It takes the two of us to, we'll make it through!

So let's go, into tomorrow
Together fighting
We're bows and arrows!

You and me on the front line
You and me, every time
It's always you and me, we're bows and arrows
You!
You and me when the sun goes down
It's always you and me when the whip comes round
It's always you and me, we're bows and arrows
You!

We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal
We the people, created equal

And if that's true then we're not the only ones
And if that's true then we're not the only ones
And if that's true then we're not the only ones
And if that's true then we're not the only ones

You and me on the front line
You and me, every time
It's always you and me, we're bows and arrows
You!

Writer/s: BAINES, NICHOLAS / RIX, JAMES / WHITE, ANDREW ROBERT / WILSON, CHARLES RICHARD / WILKINSON, RICHARD
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bows & Arrows

This celebration of brotherhood was premiered on Rolling Stone's website on January 3, 2014. Speaking to the magazine about the song, frontman Ricky Wilson commented: "[Bassist] Simon Rix came up with the title when we were working in a studio under the McDonalds in Islington [London]. I liked the idea that bows and arrows are pretty useless on their own but when you get them together, they can be quite formidable."

"A bit like us lot, really," he added. "I love being in a band. It's daft to think you can do it alone. It's about not being afraid of emotion. It can be the strongest weapon we have. What's wrong with a load of blokes admitting they need each other? [It's] a sliver of hope through all the futility and loss on the record. You can also dance to it."

Kaiser Chiefs - Cannons

Kaiser Chiefs - Cannons Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Education, Education, Education & War
Released: 2014

Cannons Lyrics

Look alive, break aside, draw a line in the sand
Here's the band: treat us like we're extras, we're not epic
Treat us like we're not on our boots
You leave us on the stretches where the credits roll

The king will simply build institutes
We are a part team military muscles
Tell ourselves we're the part of a soul
Smashing regimes between (???) challenging
Education, education and war

We're gonna need a lot more Cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas
We're gonna need a lot more cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas

I know, I know, if you wanna know,
If you wanna see your face again
I know we feel the same way

And making all the difficult decisions, to follow
Petitions on children first
How about a person of position, you say
You will be happy if you expect the worst
Armor, paper strolls and a Bible,
So going out across apartment stores
You will be issued with a rifle on arrival, champs
Education, education and war

We're gonna need a lot more cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas
We're gonna need a lot more cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas

I know, I know, if you wanna know,
If you wanna see your face again
I know we feel the same way

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Show us the way to go
And let heaven help us
Show us the way to go
Save our souls
Show us the way back home
Save our souls
Show us the way to go

Writer/s: BAINES, NICHOLAS / RIX, JAMES / WHITE, ANDREW ROBERT / WILSON, CHARLES RICHARD / SMITH, FRASER LANCE THORNYCROFT
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Cannons

This climatic song finishes with a bitter two-minute apocalyptic poem, which is read by actor Bill Nighy. The verse references the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over a soundtrack of battlefield noises and brouhaha from the Houses of Parliament. Speaking to The Independent, Kaisers frontman Ricky Wilson said: "When I was writing the lyrics for the record, the whole World War One centenary thing was flying around. So if you're writing honestly, it's going to leak in there."

"I wrote the poem as an exercise originally," he continued. "The original story was an imaginary assault by a superpower – not necessarily the USA, trying to take over Hell."

"They are invading Hell, wiping out Hell. Then going "now what do we do, where do we go next?"'

British actor Bill Nighy is best known in the music world for his song "Christmas is All Around" in the British romantic comedy movie Love Actually, which was a clear parody of Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around."

The album title is referenced in this song. The first part is a reference to Tony Blair's election pledge that "education, education, education" was the cornerstone of Britain's future. The "& War" passes judgment on the rest of his legacy in the light of the military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It was Bill Nighy who came up with the album title. Ricky Wilson told Q magazine: "I was thinking of calling it Education & War, but Bill loved the full title. Everyone in Britain knows what it refers to."

Kaiser Chiefs - Coming Home

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Album: Education, Education, Education & War
Released: 2014

Coming Home Lyrics

Do you wish you hadn't stayed all night?
Do you wish you hadn't gotten so high?
Do you wish you hadn't come? Oh no, gotta go

Do you wish you wasn't half past gone?
Do you wish you didn't last that long?
Do you wish you hadn't come? Oh no, gotta go, gotta run

May I remind you,
May I remind that you've got nowhere to go,
So I'm standing beside you,
Standing beside you 'til you find our way back home

We're Coming Home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down

And we're dancing on the finest line,
Between the chance of the time of our lives,
Wishing you were done, oh no, gotta run

And we're choosing not to make that choice,
And we lose our shoes and voice,
But we have a lot of fun on the way, wanna play?
Gotta come!

May I remind you,
May I remind that you've got no where to go,
So I'm standing beside you,
I'm standing beside you 'til you find our way back home

We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down

We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down

Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody from a dream
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody from a dream
Then it all comes flooding back to me,
Like a forgotten melody

We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down

We're coming home,
We're coming home,
Light a fire
We're coming home.
We'll write it down,
We'll write it all down

Writer/s: WHITE, JOHN / BYRNE, PADDY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Coming Home

This song is about how we vainly try to forget disappointment through short-lived hedonistic pursuits. It was first performed live by the Kaisers during their 2013 shows at London's Hyde Park and Leeds Arena.

The video was shot by James Slater (Mark Owen's "Stars," White Lies' "There Goes Our Love Again") in the Yorkshire Dales, not far from the band's hometown, It finds frontman Ricky Wilson strolling across the moors. The director told Promo News about the filming of the clip. "We shot the video in a jovially named place called Blubberhouses which is right on the southern cusp of the Yorkshire Dales, and not too far from where I'm from," he said. "Its also just up the road from where the band hail. I think we all just hankered after a bit of home cooking."

"I've never shot in Yorkshire before, I should do it more often," he continued. "The landscapes are great and as soon as DOP Jonathan Isles put the anamorphic lens on, it looked like a Western setting (if you ignore the rain, the wind, the grey skies and the lack of desert and Cacti)."

"The strip of land we shot on leant itself well to the one shot idea," Slater continued, "and thanks to the fantastic cast, crew (who all seemed to know each other from Heartbeat) and a really strong performance from Ricky, we had the take we needed after about ten attempts."