Featuring:
Quiera Cantrell
Casey Rebal
Ian
Morrison
Tashara May
Marianna Chavez
Erin Navarette
Ilasiea Grey
Jordan Crab
Oren Rabinowitz
Kat Bond
This is the entire performance of Strangers. It was performed in April of 2010 by the University of Colorado Denver's Theatre Buffs. It is a sci-fi, slam poetry musical and I feel honored to have contribute my talent to the project. I had always wanted to work with hip-hop and urban influenced music and this was my perfect opportunity.
LYRICS:
Rioter #1:
Tear it up! Shut it down!
Turn the wheel! Spin it 'round!
Mass confusion! No one cares!
Terrorism everywhere!
Rioter #2:
Middle finger in the air!
Take a bat and swing it there!
Smash the windows, burn the bank!
Keep your mind from going blank!
Rioter #3:
Fuck! Let's smoke it up!
'Cause if the world goes down in flames,
Let us have our Mary Jane!
Rioter #4:
Fuck! Let's turn it up!
'Cause if it's really going down like this
Let's all go out and take a piss!
All:
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
You look your doors and hide!
You look your doors and hide!
You look your doors and hide!
Or come on out to fight!
Or come on out to fight!
Or come on out to fight!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
Rioter #5:
We don't need to have no jobs
We don't need to pay for shit!
Rob our dads and rape our moms for
Getting us involved in this!
Rioter #6:
Nothing's complicated now
We have learned to turn it off!
Get your guns and bullets out
Shoot it up! Set it off!
Rioter #7
Mess with it! Make it raw!
From Europe and from Africa!
Chaos is the only way!
Time to blow it all to shit!
Rioter #8:
Time to have our way with it!
Time to spill and shed the blood of it!
All:
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
You look your doors and hide!
You look your doors and hide!
You look your doors and hide!
Or come on out to fight!
Or come on out to fight!
Or come on out to fight!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
(instrumental break)
All:
Tear it up! Shut it down!
Turn the wheel! Spin it 'round!
Mass confusion! No one cares!
Terrorism everywhere!
Middle finger in the air!
Take a bat and swing it there!
Smash the windows, burn the bank!
Keep your mind from going blank!
Fuck! Let's smoke it up!
'Cause if the world goes down in flames,
Let us have our Mary Jane!
Fuck! Let's turn it up!
'Cause if it's really going down like this
Let's all go out and take a piss!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
You look your doors and hide!
You look your doors and hide!
You look your doors and hide!
Or come on out to fight!
Or come on out to fight!
Or come on out to fight!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
This planet needs a riot!
