Five Nights Of Bleeding

Madness, madness

Madness tight on the heads of the rebels

The bitterness erupts like a heart blast

Broke glass, ritual of blood and a-burnin'

Served by a cruelin' fighting

Five nights of horror and of bleeding

Broke glass, cold blades as sharp as the eyes of hate and the stabbin'

It's war amongst the rebels

Madness, madness, war

Night number one was in Brixton

Sofrano B Sound System

Mm was a-beatin' up the riddim with a fire

Him comin' down his reggae reggae wire

It was a sound checkin' down your spinal column

A bad music tearin' up your flesh

And the rebels dem start a fighting

De youth dem just turn wild

It's war amongst the rebels

Madness, madness, war

Night number two down at Sheppard's

Right up Railton road

It was a night name Friday when everyone was high on brew or drew

A pound or two worth of Kali

Sound comin' down of the King's music iron

The riddim just bubblin' an' backfirin’, ragin' an' risin'

When suddenly the music cut

Steelblade drinkin' blood in darkness

It's war amongst the rebels

Madness, madness, war

Night number three, over the river

Right outside the Rainbow

Inside James Brown was screamin’ soul

Outside the rebels were freezin' cold

Babylonian tyrants descended

Bounced on the brothers who were bold

So with a flick of the wrist, a jab and a stab

The song of blades was sounded

The pile of oppression was vomited

And two policemen wounded

Righteous, righteous war

Night number four at the blues dance, abuse dance

Two rooms packed and the pressure pushin' up

Hot, hotheads

Ritual of blood in the blues dance

Broke glass, splintering fire

Axes, blades, brain blast

Rebellion rushin' down the wrong road

Storm blowin' down the wrong tree

And Leroy bleeds near death on the fourth night

In a blues dance, on a black rebellious night

It's war amongst the rebels

Madness, madness, war

Night number five at the Telegraph

Vengeance walk thru de doors

So slow, so smooth

So tight and ripe and smash

Broke glass, a bottle finds a head

And the shell of the fire heard cracks

The victim feels fear

Finds hands, holds knife, finds throat

Oh, the stabbin’s and the bleedin' and the blood

It's war amongst the rebels

Madness, madness, war