| Song | Open Letter (To A Landlord) |
| Artist | Living Colour |
| Album | VIVID |
| 作词 : Morris, Reid | |
| 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 all the people out | |
| This what you're all about | |
| Treat poor people just like trash | |
| Turn around and make big cash | |
| Chorus: 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 family | |
| 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 | |
| Chorus | |
| 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? | |
| 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 | |
| Chorus | |
| You've got to fight | |
| You've got a right | |
| To fight for your neighborhood! |
| zuò cí : Morris, Reid | |
| 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 all the people out | |
| This what you' re all about | |
| Treat poor people just like trash | |
| Turn around and make big cash | |
| Chorus: 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 family | |
| 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 | |
| Chorus | |
| 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? | |
| 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 | |
| Chorus | |
| You' ve got to fight | |
| You' ve got a right | |
| To fight for your neighborhood! |