Midnight At the Liberty

(Tom Meltzer)
 Midnight at the Liberty
 Jimi's playing Berkeley
 But he's playing much too quiet
 Hope that it don't start a riot
 I guess that's why the cops are here
 Looks like they're decked out in riot gear
 There ought to be a better way
 For folks to make a buck
 And we'd complain but we're too stoned
 And if we leave we've got to go back home
 Our parents might not be asleep
 So we're staying at the Liberty
 Some stupid kid had no fear
 He lit a joint somewhere toward the rear
 A cop threw him to the ground
 We were afraid to turn around
 The kid, he started getting mad
 He said the mayor was his dad
 If the movie had been loud enough
 We wouldn't have heard nothing at all
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 The kid must have been no one
 Or the mayor didn't like his son
 Cause the cops treated him pretty mean
 From the theater we could hear him screaming
 What strikes me most in retrospect
 Is nothing happened that I didn't expect
 I hear that movie isn't very good
 But I guess I'll never know
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