You're Not From Around Here

Renovate and modernise

A lick of paint revitalises

Rundown houses in that rundown town

Culturally commodified

Housing price monopolised

Rundown houses in that rundown town

Church becomes a coffee shop

Businesses an office block

Crime rate low and the rent price up

Elevate, globalise

Residents dehumanised

Rundown houses in that rundown town

You're not from round here

You're not from round here

Renovate and modernise

A lick of paint revitalises

Rundown houses in that rundown town

Equitise, villanise

Violate squatters rights

Lowlives are ruining your brand new town

Town hall becomes a brewery

Furthering disparity

Drowning out sense of what was community

Elevate and globalise

Residents dehumanised

Lowlives are ruining your brand new town

Gentrification is a process of urban development

In which a neighbourhood develops rapidly over a short time

Changing from low to high value

Original residents, families, single working mothers, low income households

Are displaced from the very community that they helped build

Renovate and modernise

A lick of paint revitalises

Rundown houses in that rundown town

Culturally commodified

Housing price monopolised

Those rundown houses in that rundown town

Church becomes a coffee shop

Businesses an office block

The crime rate low and the rent price up

Elevate, globalise

Residents dehumanised

These lowlives are ruining your brand new town

You're not from round here

You're not from round here