Forget our faces Don’t you know they’ve never been too good with names? Call it like they see it Wring the blood out of the rocks of real estate I was walking east on Fairmount, up to Broad How far the “Art Museum Area” tag has gone And I wanna ask the neighbors If that’s how the agents pitched the place they bought
Long before the chains were wrapped around the block, They were sellin’ us it’s something that it’s not Long before the taxes and the rents went up They were stretching out the posts and taking shots
“This is where we live, this ain’t your ground to stomp,” We shout against your roaring But it’s a game of names, and once it’s underway That is our early warning
40 ounces, Hoagie City, east on 30, from the woods I was raised up in West Philly by a pack of crazy wolves You got your wreckin’ balls and eminent domain You got your buildings where we work, and used to play But we knew the night was over when Univer-City banners came
From the dealers to the punks to pioneers Into boxes where the students slam their beers It’s an investment, not a place we live no more Stop me if you think you’ve heard this real bad joke before
“This is where we live, this ain’t your ground to stomp,” We shout against your roaring But it’s a game of names, and once it’s underway That is our early warning This is where we rolled, into a parking lot I think you know the story First they draw the bounds then come the hare and hounds And then the land is foreign
They were lining up at tables, for the meals in the parks Others signing, trying to shut ‘em down and out of their back yards They say it’s dignity, not “out of sight and mind” They say it’s cleanliness, not tourists walkin’ by It’s not displacement or an exile down on Main It’s not dispossession, just a change of name
Forget our faces Don’t you know they’ve never been too good with names?
“This is where we live, this ain’t your ground to stomp,” We shout against your roaring But it’s a game of names, and once it’s underway That is our early warning This is your early warning Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa. |
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