The opera is over
The singers have all gone home
Seats are all empty

The kitchen is closed
The sidewalks are sprayed down
The blinds are pulled down

Foundations unstable
The wrecking ball is back
Requiring this band's vacancy

Requiring this band's vacancy

Rents are rising

Our lease is up
Culture is down


The symphony's concluded
The instruments are all cased up
Notes are silent

But music's still apparent

Rents are rising

Our lease is up
Culture is down
Spirits are jaded


Art is dying
Is art dead

Art is dying
Is it dead
Believing we need it to move on


A one track mind in a one way time
Let's go ahead and gentrify

Let art die with noble minds
Steal a brush and paint boundary lines
For the stale kind of people we'll find

Walking in single file line
I think it's time to finally rewind
Let's go ahead we might as well


Rents are rising
Our lease is up

Culture is down
Spirits are jaded