you family's lived here for generations
  but you can't afford it no more
  we're making room for the corporations
  got no room for the poor
  rent is up, so you are out, we fall deaf to all your cries
  this use to be your neighborhood
  now you've been gentrified
    what's really at the stake ain't real estate
  you're talking about people's lives
  rip the heart from a community
  their culture surely dies
    they call it progress but who moves ahead?
  the people who control the wealth
  'cause of their actions people end up dead
  they only care about themselves
  playing god, who goes? who stays?
  who the fuck are you to decide?
  they call it progress but it is a cultural genocide
    gentrified, genocide