Renovate and modernise, a lick of paint revitalises
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Culturally commodified, housing price monopolised
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Church becomes a coffee shop, businesses an office block
Crime rate low and the rent price up
Elevate, globalise, residents dehumanised
Run-down houses in that run-down town

You're not from 'round here
You're not from 'round here

Renovate and modernise, a lick of paint revitalises
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Equitise, villainise, violate squatters' rights
Low-laws are ruining your brand-new town
Town hall becomes a brewery, furthering disparity
Drowning out sense of what was community
Elevate and globalise, residents dehumanised
Low-laws are ruining your brand-new town

Gentrification is a process of urban development
In which a neighbourhood develops rapidly over a short time
Changing from low to high value
Original residents, families
single working mothers, low-income households
Are displaced from the very community that they helped build

Renovate and modernise, a lick of paint revitalises
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Culturally commodified, housing price monopolised
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Church becomes coffee shop, businesses an office block
Crime rate low and the rent price up
Elevate and globalise, residents dehumanised
Low-laws are ruining your brand-new town

You're not from 'round here
You're not from 'round here