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