Your family's lived here for generations But you can't afford it no more We're making room for the corporations Got no room for the poor Rent is up, so you are out, we fall deaf to all your cries This used to be your neighborhood Now you've been gentrified What's really at stake ain't real estate We're talking about peoples lives Rip the heart from a community
Their culture surely dies They call it progress but who moves ahead? The people who control the wealth 'Cause of their actions people end up dead They only care about themselves Playing god, who goes? who stays? Who the f** are you to decide? They call it progress but it's a cultural genocide Gentrified, genocide