Ani Difranco - Subdivision Lyrics
White people are so scared of black people.They bulldoze out to the country, and put up houses on little loop-d-loop streets.And while america gets its heart cut right out of its chestThe berlin wall still runs down main street separating east side from west.And nothing is stirring, not even a mouse, in the boarded up stores and the broken down housesSo they hang colorful banners off all the street lampsJust to prove they got no manners, no mercy, and no sense.And I wonder then what it will take for my city to rise.First we admit our mistakes and then we open our eyes.The ghost of old buildings are haunting parking lots in the city of good neighbors that history forgot.I remember the first time I saw someone lying on the cold streetI thought, I cant just walk past you, this cant just be true.But I learned by example to just keep moving my feet.Its amazing the things that we all learn to do.So were led by denial like lambs to the slaughterServing empires of style and carbonated sugar water and the old farmroads a four-laneThat leads to the mall and my dreams are all guillotines waiting to fallAnd I wonder then what it will take for my country to rise.First we admit our mistakes and then we open our eyes.til nations last taker succumbs to one last dumb decisionAnd america the beautiful is just one big subdivision.
