Key: F
Introduction:
Bb F
Now you can tear a building down
Eb G#
But you can't erase a memory
Bb F
These houses may look all run down
Eb G#
But they have a value you can't see
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This is my neighborhood
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This is where I come from
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I call this place my home
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You call this place a slum
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You wanna run all the people out
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This what you're all about
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Treat poor people just like trash
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Turn around and make big cash
Bb F
Now you can tear a building down
Eb G#
But you can't erase a memory
Bb F
These houses may look all run down
Eb G#
But they have a value you can't see
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Last month there was a fire
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I saw seven children die
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You sent flowers to their family
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But your sympathy's a lie
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Cause every building that you burn
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Is more blood money that you earn
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We are forced to relocate
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From the pain that you create