| Smog is drifting aimlessly over these crowded streets
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| Gloomy houses do their best to keep people in
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| Dark days approaching, the brick lanes get lethal
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| Under cheap signs in cardboard I see faces shine
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| With struggles and pride
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| Keep it all, keep it alive
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| I understand how you’re thinking
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| Your profits are shrinking
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| I know, it must hurt your feelings
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| But these streets were built by my brothers
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| My sisters, dads and mothers
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| Keep it alive, don’t extort souls for malls
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| Keep it alive, ain’t just bricks gonna fall
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| Take a look around the town and tell me what you see
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| Where would you like to sit down and have a drink on me?
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| My treat totally, just follow my lead
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| So leave you credit cards at home for one day
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| No shares sold today
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| Watch this town when it’s alive
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| It might just blow your top off
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| Make you laugh, or make you swallow
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| I know, I’ve seen it every day
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| Nuns, students, beggars, thieves and workmen
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| Your own kind if you let them
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| Keep it alive, don’t extort souls for malls
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| Keep it alive, ain’t just bricks gonna fall
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| What is a town, dead and buried?
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| A legend for posterity
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| Keep it, keep it alive |