Traffic lights and parking cones Picket fences, family homes The police around all the time Don't need em cause we got no crime No dirty money in the vault At least no dignitaries know Keep profits high and margins low And keep em in a stranglehold Don't need no culture We got our own Keep our children centerfold At least that's what the picture shows Keep education on the roll To sell more houses, bought ours so low Keep all our kids on medication Ensure they don't go misbehaving They say the problem's in our history What came before us, can't just go missing Wе've done our praying Pleasе don't go digging Set fire to the village wall What else ya build a city on? If not a pile of broken bones Don't need these people We got our own We'll let the dead do all the wishing So we can start a brand new system We'll forge their headstones on our floor And stomp until our feet are sore Red brick buildings ain't got no soul Don't need your future Already took it Turned out the lights and kissed your families You woke up in a soulless city We try our best to move along By that I mean Wipe your existence From off the slate of history's walls Can't let your moment tarnish ours It pays to play the game of business Choose who gets pardoned, who gets evicted White picket fences and broken homes Force-fed religion and armed with stones We still reside in your soulless city