Redevelopment

Oak beams and cobbled streets were weathered

We to an imagined past are tethered

Those streets had not been there forever

Nostalgia can't keep them together

Decay (Redevelop, Redevelopment)

Makes way (Redevelop, Redevelopment)

As we pave (Redevelop, Redevelopment)

Our way to a future of concrete anonymity

High-rise and underpasses weathered

Cladding couldn't hold it all together

Estate torn down and multi-storey blown-up

Condemned as a 1960s hiccup

Decay (Redevelop, Redevelopment)

Makes way (Redevelop, Redevelopment)

As we build (Redevelop, Redevelopment)

A complex of unaffordable luxury apartments

History to memory is cuckhold

Progress and decay are but muddled

Nostalgia's got us in a chokehold

All agreed we need to be bold

But if it's not in our backyard then where's it gonna be?

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