Subdivision Lyrics - Revelling / Reckoning - Ani Difranco

White people are so scared of black people 

They bulldoze out to the country 

And put up houses on little loop-dee-loop streets 

And while america gets its heart cut right out of its chest 

The Berlin wall still runs down main street 

Separating east side from west 

And nothing is stirring, not even a mouse 

In the boarded-up stores and the broken-down houses 

So they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps 

Just to prove they got no manners 

No mercy and no sense 

And I'm wondering what it will take 

For my city to rise 

First we admit our mistakes 

Then we open our eyes 

The ghosts of old buildings are haunting parking lots 

In the city of good neighbors that history forgot 

I remember the first time I saw someone 

Lying on the cold street 

I thought: I can't just walk past here 

This can't just be true 

But I learned by example 

To just keep moving my feet 

It's amazing the things that we all learn to do 

So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter 

Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water 

And the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mall 

And our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall