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Urban Renewal

from Ghosts of Dreams by TR Kelley

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lyrics

look here's another one coming down
a hundred-year-old house in the funky part of town
some say that its illegal some say it is unsafe
the landlord's tired of hippies and it's a neighborhood disgrace
guitars playing incense burning plants in pots and tie dye curtains
they love this place and keep it working
but someone's nailed a notice on the door
you just can't live here any more

someone needs another road to regencybriarwoodravencrest estates
so taxpaying commuters won't ever have to wait
or ever be inconvenienced, or ever get home late
to suburban streets where its nice and light and white
sanitized and safety railed a gated paradise for sale
prequalified good credit risks employed only need apply.
the rest of you just wait outside

the wrecking ball is smashing,
old lath and plaster cracking,
a hard hat and a suit lay out the plans,

insurance office, a mini-mart, a parking lot with shopping carts
strip mall modern and looking smart, without a soul without a heart
give me back the streets with trees and the smells of cooking on the breeze,
bikes, skaters, kids & cats & bikes out in the yards
characters both soft and hard, loiter with idle disregard
on this street, this shady street
where lexus fears to tread,

but they're waiting impatiently as the flagger holds them down
distant eyes and tinted glass through my neighborhood they quickly pass
powerlocked and shatterproofed, phone antenna on the roof
aimed at pretentious prefabricated charm
little sterile square of grass, security wires in all the glass
safe from gangs & drugs at last with luxuries, amenties, designer drapes
and heated parking for 3 cars

pave the past,raze the last, give the lost a ticket to somewhere else
but they say not in my backyard
illegals and bums and welfare moms, some say they are unsafe
a stumbling block to progress, sores upon the civic face.
no credit cards, bank accounts no property to tax
no power to stop the swinging of the urban renewal ax

hurry up you, move along
you got no address in this town
and they drape blankets on the windshield,
sleep 3 to a car

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from Ghosts of Dreams, released July 1, 1997

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This pre-Raventones page has music from TR's 1990s acoustic years, which ran concurrently with here time in Babes With Axes (also available here on bandcamp)

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