Chicago Lyrics - Singles - The Tossers

Well we had a mouse right in our house and were afraid to move 

But I'd never trade that time we spent huddled up in the front room 

No chill or rats or poverty can quell my love for you 

Or for this dump we're standing in 'cause this is my home too 

Chicago, Chicago, well there's assholes everywhere 

Chicago, Chicago, where you're 15 pints from all your cares 

Where your wallet's like a sieve 

And that's where all of the gangsters live 

Chicago, Chicago, is where we can afford to live 

Well I sit out on my front porch step, watch the gangsters selling crack 

And I call the cops when a girl walks by and they give her a smack 

Oh I like to get my beer and sit on my front step or by the store 

Hanging out where white folks fear to tread, yeah this is my home for sure 

No gangsters can deface it 'cause it's still the same to me 

Sometimes the bullets frighten me but I speak up you see 

Oh I can navigate the subway sect just like a weathered pro 

And anywhere I want to you know that is where I go 

Chicago, Chicago, assholes everywhere 

Chicago, Chicago, we are 15 pints from all our cares 

Where your wallet's like a sieve 

And that's where all of the gangsters live 

Chicago, Chicago, is where we can afford to live 

I'm going out all by myself, no victims role for me 

No I'm not transgressed by lovers or friends or owed something you see 

Well the new condo's they're coming fast and the rents have gone sky high 

Just because we're seen as pioneers they start to build for all the whites 

They fuckin' gentrified my home, they fuckin' gentrified my home 

Left affordable housing there to roam, they fuckin' gentrified my home 

They fuckin' gentrified my home, they fuckin' gentrified my home 

Daley kicking ethnic vendors off the street, ordinanced nothing cheap to eat 

No more vendors in front of restaurants 

'cause Daley says they attract vermin to their haunts 

But I don't think that's the targeted vermin that he wants 

See the copper with his badge and his gun 

He's not hiding from anyone 

So you better collect your shit and run 

New shopping fronts are popping up all around 

Driving our affordability out of town 

You'd think they no longer want us around 

Public housing coming down by federal mandate 

All of whom they promised to relocate 

Rick Lazio's bill passed congress but they just segregated 'em back from where they came 

Neighborhoods splits up by highways lined 

Dividing different races by color lines 

Old mayor Daley put 'em there in the ever old grand ol' time 

Real world hype drives the rent sky high 

Now MTV age yuppies want to buy 

The city got the exorbitant tax 

But in the real world in Chicago someone was shot outside the apartment and they died 

So you better run, stand, fight