The Stolen City Lyrics

Traffic lights and parking cones

Picket fences, family homes

The police around all the time

Don't need em cause we got no crime

No dirty money in the vault

At least no dignitaries know

Keep profits high and margins low

And keep em in a stranglehold

Don't need no culture

We got our own

Keep our children centerfold

At least that's what the picture shows

Keep education on the roll

To sell more houses, bought ours so low

Keep all our kids on medication

Ensure they don't go misbehaving

They say the problem's in our history

What came before us, can't just go missing

We've done our praying

Please don't go digging

Set fire to the village wall

What else ya build a city on?

If not a pile of broken bones

Don't need these people

We got our own

We'll let the dead do all the wishing

So we can start a brand new system

We'll forge their headstones on our floor

And stomp until our feet are sore

Red brick buildings ain't got no soul

Don't need your future

Already took it

Turned out the lights and kissed your families

You woke up in a soulless city

We try our best to move along

By that I mean

Wipe your existence

From off the slate of history's walls

Can't let your moment tarnish ours

It pays to play the game of business

Choose who gets pardoned, who gets evicted

White picket fences and broken homes

Force-fed religion and armed with stones

We still reside in your soulless city