Lambrini Girls - You're Not from Around Here Lyrics

Renovate and modernize, a lick of paint revitalizes
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Culturally commodified, housing price monopolized
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, globalize, residents dehumanized
Run-down houses in that run-down town

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

Renovate and modernize, a lick of paint revitalizes
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Equitize, villainize, 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 globalize, residents dehumanized
Low-laws are ruining your brand-new town

Gentrification is a process of urban development
In which a neighborhood 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 modernize, a lick of paint revitalizes
Run-down houses in that run-down town
Culturally commodified, housing price monopolized
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 globalize, residents dehumanized
Low-laws are ruining your brand-new town

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