Redevelopment

Oak beams and cobbled streets were weathered We to an imagined past are tethered Those streets had not been there forever Nostalgia can't keep them together Decay (Redevelop, Redevelopment) Makes way (Redevelop, Redevelopment) As we pave (Redevelop, Redevelopment) Our way to a future of concrete anonymity High-rise and underpasses weathered Cladding couldn't hold it all together Estate torn down and multi-storey blown-up Condemned as a 1960s hiccup Decay (Redevelop, Redevelopment) Makes way (Redevelop, Redevelopment) As we build (Redevelop, Redevelopment) A complex of unaffordable luxury apartments History to memory is cuckhold Progress and decay are but muddled Nostalgia's got us in a chokehold All agreed we need to be bold But if it's not in our backyard then where's it gonna be? (Redevelop, Redevelopment) (Redevelop, Redevelopment) (Redevelop, Redevelopment) (Redevelop, Redevelopment)