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
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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
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