Forget our faces
Don't cha know they've never been too good with names?
Call it like they see it
Wring the blood out of the rocks of real estate
I was walking east on Fairmount up to Broad
How far the art museum area tag has gone
And I wanna ask the neighbors
If thats how the agents pinched the place they bought
Long before the chains were wrapped around the block
They were selling us it's something that its not
And long before the taxes and the rents went up
They were stretchin' out the posts and taking shots
This where we live
This ain't your ground to stomp
We shout against your roaring
But it's a game of names and once it's underway
That is our early warning
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Forty ounces, Hoagie City, east on thirty from the woods
I was raised up in West Philly by a pack of crazy wolves
You got your wrecking balls and eminent domain
You got your buildings where we work and used to play
But we knew the night was over when the Univer-City banners came
From the dealers to the punks to pioneers
Into boxes where the students slam their beers
It's an investment, not a place we live no more
Stop me if you think you heard this real bad joke before
This is where we live
This ain't your ground to stomp
We shout against your roaring
But its a game of names and once it's underway
That is our early warning
This is where we roll, into a parking lot
I think you know the story
Well first they draw the bounds, then come the hare and hounds
And then the land is foreign
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They were lining up at tables for the meals in the parks
Others signing trying to shut 'em down and out of their backyards
They say it's dignity not "out of sight and mind"
They say it's cleanliness not tourists walking by
It's not displacement or an exile down on Main
It's not dispossession, just a change of name
Forget our faces
Don't cha know they've never been too good with names?
This is where we live
This ain't your ground to stomp
We shout against your roaring
But it's a game of names and once it's underway
That is our early warning
This is your early warning