INDK - Living With Even LES Lyrics
Second time around the shit gets illerLivin in a world full of fillerFew are true - the rest are killersArsonistic - Burnin down the old way, buildin up a new dayOptimistic - But I'm full of nihilistic bloodI never needed love 'cause for the place I live I feel enoughJust try and make a march on my homeYou'll find me chained to the building quite unwillingWhere would we go?I think it's safe to say that I don't know'Cause someday we'll be going home to find we don't have any home at allAny day they'll section off our block with riot gear and come evict us allToday - the Lower East Side is yuppified with fat cats and their poor folk hideSomeday maybe we will re-emerge from East River a turning tideAnd avenue by avenue we'll take back everything we knewThe gardens, the squats, and all our shareWe'll even take back Tompkins SquareI've got something of a problem with the nationIt's called gentrificationMarching to our heighborhood to lock us in the stationHow many blessings can I count? There are too many to amountBut deep in suburbia men are being trained to come into my neighborhood &Take over the AvenueThe brutal truth of it all is that the brute dollar strength will be our fallTanks in the street, ghetto birds in the airSnipers on the rooftops and a nod from the mayorI have no future anymore - I'm waiting for imminent warWish I could say I was waiting for the sunBut I know eviction day will come& we'll be deafened by the money drumPushing the poor off-shore
