The Stink - Leave My City Lyrics

Summer's bumming
In the dumps from becoming
An old lady - she can't fight it
These new kids
With their screw-you bids
Worth her whole savings - she can't fight it
A lost town
They can't keep the cost down
Anymore - oh no, she can't fight it
A lost cause
They just can't enforce laws
It's a war - oh no, she can't

She says, "leave my city, leave my city alone"
She says, "I grieve for my city, I see that my city is gone"

This block
Was the pits, now kids flock
To its new spaces - she can't fight it
These people
With their greed knees-deep
And their two-faces - she can't fight it
Mom and Pop
Ran a lunchtime shop
Locals sang its praise - they can't fight it
They closed down
When the rent rose, now
There's a bank in its place - they can't

She says, "leave my city, leave my city alone"
She says, "I grieve for my city, can't leave, this city's my home"
But how cheap is my pity? I won't even care when she's gone
The scene's not pretty, at least she had a city to own

Lay claim
To a place and place blame
On the newcomers - you can't fight it
But rents rise
And hence the trend dies
We're the new Summers - we can't

I said, "leave my city, leave my city alone"
With no means and no pity, the seeds of my city were sown
So clean and so pretty, the street of my city have grown
It's not mean, it's not gritty - it seems that my city is gone