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Lyricist: Living Colour
| Song: | Open Letter to a Landord |  
| Album: | Time's Up | Genres: | Rock |  
| Year: | 2002 | Length: | 331 sec |  Lyrics: 
 Now you can tear a building downBut you can't erase a memory
 These houses may look all run down
 But they have a value you can't see...
 
 This is my neighborhood
 This is where I come from
 I call this place my home
 You call this place a slum
 You wanna run all the people out
 This what you're all about
 Treat poor people just like trash
 Turn around and make big cash
 now you can tear a building down
 But you can't erase a memory
 These houses may look all run down
 But they have a value you can't see
 Last month there was a fire
 I saw seven children die
 You sent flowers to their family
 But your sympathy's a lie
 Cause every building that you burn
 Is more blood money that you earn
 We are forced to relocate
 >from the pain that you create
 We lived here for so many years
 Now this house is full of fear
 For a profit you will take control
 Where will all the older people go?
 There used to be when kids could play
 Without the scourge of drug's decay
 Now our kids are living dead
 They crack and blow their lives away
 You've got to fight
 You've got a right
 To fight for your neighborhood!
 
 
		
		
	
 
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