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EMCEE CALL & HERETIC lyrics : "Levittown"

Verse 1
Come on down to Levittown,
Pound for pound the cheapest around,

World renowned, only 100 dollars down
Lil green for ya ground, but you better not be brown
The suburbs were founded, the subtext abounded

Down with the status quo?
No, they were down with the status quo
See that white flight didn't happen overnight

No that white flight was thoroughly planned
That plane took off 'fore the day began
And the Plains were wrought with the space to land

Land was bought by the slight of white hands
All soaked by the red blood of the Red man
Hills were tilled with by the hands of slaves

Tracks were laid by the fella called yella
The beast done bellowed, "lemme lemme just tell ya,
Lemme just sell ya my American Dream,

Give it a try before you knock it
Go head pick opportunity's pockets,"
Divide and conquer and the people bought it

Sorted out the wrenches from the sockets
Poor whites fight for the rich white profits
We don't unite, so the rich whites profit


Chorus
Won't you take me to, Levittown

Won't you take me to, Levittown
Won't you take me to, Levittown
Won't you take me to, Levittown


Verse 2
Kansas City school district is sick with systemic sickness, Show-Me State wont accredidate,

Show me your fate or relocate to Suburbia,
The only place to educate your kids
Inundated with the myth

that you can get pulled up by your own bootstraps
Ignoring the fact that some boots are strapped to the back of the bus,
I must admit, I'm a part of the problem, or at least its product,

I'm not stuck, but I'm still aware,
I benefited from my skin being fair
Momma wasn't able to pay for something better

She knew she better get us out of there,
Doors were closing before they opened
Hopin' for a better shot, she wrote another address on the dot dot dot...

I got in a school for suburbanites, I became one, made sense, I'm light
New daddy was brown, but he passed for white,
So the realtor was like "Hmmm? Alright"


Verse 3
Housing segregation ain't new for this generation

Gentrificatio, perpetuation?man
that %#@! goes back to official plantations,
Wealthy taking the liberty of taking liberty

Giving the orders, given these borders
They board us up, for what?? brick and mortars
Sorta like how they sort us out

Force us out like the middle class
But middle class is a myth of the past
just working class with they head up they $$#

Tryna pass a paternity test
Right Brother West? Redress the west
West to the east, north to the south

No housing clones, we building homes

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