Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Open Letter to a Landlord, artist - Living Colour. Date of issue: 27.10.2008
Song language: English
Open Letter to a Landlord |
| Now you can tear a building down but you can’t erase a memory |
| These houses may look all run down but they have a value you can’t see |
| This is my neighborhood |
| This is where I come from |
| I call this place my home |
| You call this place a slum |
| You wanna run the people out |
| This is what you’re all about |
| Treat poor people just like trash |
| Turn around and make big cash |
| Now you can tear a building down but you can’t erase a memory |
| These houses may look all run down but they have a value you can’t see |
| Last month there was a fire |
| I saw seven children die |
| You sent flowers to their families but your sympathy’s a lie |
| 'Cause every building that you burn is more blood money that you earn |
| We are forced to relocate from the pain that you create |
| Now you can tear a building down but you can’t erase a memory |
| These houses may look all run down but they have a value you can’t see |
| Now you can tear a building down but you can’t erase a memory |
| These houses may look all run down but they have a value you can’t see |
| We lived here for so many years |
| Now this house is full of fear |
| For a profit you will take control |
| Where will all the older people go? |
| (Go, go, go, go, go) |
| There used to be when kids could play without the scourge of drug’s decay |
| Now our kids are living dead |
| They crack and blow their lives away |
| Now you can tear a building down but you can’t erase a memory |
| These houses may look all run down but they have a value you can’t see |
| Now you can tear a building down but you can’t erase a memory (Memory) |
| These houses may look all run down but they have a value you can’t see |
| (You've got to fight, you’ve got to fight) Now you can tear a building down |
| (You've got to fight for your neighbourhood) But you can’t erase a memory |
| (You, you got to fight) These houses may look all run down |
| (For you neighbourhood) But they have a value you can’t see |
| (You've got to, you’ve got to fight) Now you can tear a building down |
| (You've got to fight for your neighbourhood) But you can’t erase a memory |
| (You've got to fight, you’ve got to fight) These houses may look all run down |
| (For your neighbourhood) |