OMG....
I always have a hard timing seeing how those lyrics fit his racial war. Pretty flimsy foundation for a war, if you ask me.
I just checked the entire set of lyrics to the Beatles' Helter Skelter, and it comes across to me as pure gibberish. At least, in the case of the Weather Underground who named their group from lyrics in a Bob Dylan tune, there seems to be some rhyme and reason to it...
"Those who later formed the Weatherman organization produced a paper at the Students for a Democratic Society Convention in Chicago in June of 1969. With a nod to Bob Dylan, the sponsors titled their epistle: 'You Don’t Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Is Blowing.'"
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
"Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'—'you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows'—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country"
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
"Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government"
"Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May"
...
Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows"