East Liberty Gentrification

LG Realty can't see the reality
Acting like displacement's an abnormality
Keep taking our people's land
Fuck your development plans
Y'all putting profits over people
Fucking shaming our bald eagle
Don't you understand the concept of freedom?
Putting our future in the mausoleum
No apartments, rent sky rockets
Walking through the streets with empty pockets
Can't afford my bus ticket, but there's a new target
Gonna have to sell drugs on the black market
Working three jobs and still no money
Thanks for the development, honey
White people still ask what's gentrification?
I'll tell you: the founding of this fucking nation!
Year's 2018 and we still at the bottom
So many hopeless, going straight to the bottle
Enough of this institutional slavery
Pretending you're still neighbourly
The bible says love thy neighbor
But all y'all love is cheap labor
Moving into our space because you think it's trendy
Shout at us: get the fuck out, you're ready!
There's no liberty in east liberty
All we have is despair and misery
Your attitudes are a fucking mystery
Have y'all forgotten this country's history?
Standing on top of stolen territory
Making our eviction mandatory
Killing all the brown people, trail of tears,
It's the same thing now, listen to our fears!
You're afraid to use the right word: genocide
Can't see this modern-day apartheid
But hey, at least you're keeping the white folks satisfied!

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