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Well we had a mouse right in our house and were afraid to move |
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But I'd never trade that time we spent huddled up in the front room |
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No chill or rats or poverty can quell my love for you |
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Or for this dump we're standing in 'cause this is my home too |
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Chicago, Chicago, well there's assholes everywhere |
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Chicago, Chicago, where you're 15 pints from all your cares |
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Where your wallet's like a sieve |
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And that's where all of the gangsters live |
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Chicago, Chicago, is where we can afford to live |
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Well I sit out on my front porch step, watch the gangsters selling crack |
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And I call the cops when a girl walks by and they give her a smack |
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Oh I like to get my beer and sit on my front step or by the store |
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Hanging out where white folks fear to tread, yeah this is my home for sure |
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No gangsters can deface it 'cause it's still the same to me |
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Sometimes the bullets frighten me but |
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I speak up you see |
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Oh I can navigate the subway sect just like a weathered pro |
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And anywhere |
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I want to you know that is where |
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I go Chicago, |
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Chicago, assholes everywhere |
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Chicago, Chicago, we are 15 pints from all our cares |
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Where your wallet's like a sieve |
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And that's where all of the gangsters live |
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Chicago, Chicago, is where we can afford to live |
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I'm going out all by myself, no victims role for me |
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No I'm not transgressed by lovers or friends or owed something you see |
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Well the new condo's they're coming fast and the rents have gone sky high |
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Just because we're seen as pioneers they start to build for all the whites |
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They fuckin' gentrified my home, they fuckin' gentrified my home |
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Left affordable housing there to roam, they fuckin' gentrified my home |
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They fuckin' gentrified my home, they fuckin' gentrified my home |
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Daley kicking ethnic vendors off the street, ordinanced nothing cheap to eat |
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No more vendors in front of restaurants 'cause |
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Daley says they attract vermin to their haunts |
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But I don't think that's the targeted vermin that he wants |
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See the copper with his badge and his gun |
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He's not hiding from anyone |
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So you better collect your shit and run |
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New shopping fronts are popping up all around |
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Driving our affordability out of town |
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You'd think they no longer want us around |
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Public housing coming down by federal mandate |
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All of whom they promised to relocate |
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Rick Lazio's bill passed congress but they just segregated 'em back from where they came |
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Neighborhoods splits up by highways lined |
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Dividing different races by color lines |
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Old mayor |
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Daley put 'em there in the ever old grand ol' time |
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Real world hype drives the rent sky high |
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Now MTV age yuppies want to buy |
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The city got the exorbitant tax |
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But in the real world in |
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Chicago someone was shot outside the apartment and they died |
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So you better run, stand, fight |
