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The Tragedy of White Flight

from The Sound of Urban Decay by Al Bundie's Army

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THE TRAGEDY OF WHITE FLIGHT
(words and music by Todd Parker)

Drive through a broken city
Watching it struggle every weak
A city in need of something
Momentum is getting hard to beat
The tension is always building
Simmering there with no release
But there's an anger burning
When times are tough on every street

Urban sprawl has made us weak
Urban sprawl will bring defeat

There is a sharp division
There is mistrust and bigotry
There is a strong resentment
There is a bitter history
They never fixed the problems
They just got up and moved away
Now cities are boiling over
And suburbs are starting to decay

Urban sprawl has made us weak
Urban sprawl will bring defeat

Running from the headlines
Running from the petty crimes
Clean it up another time
The tragedy of white flight

We can stop this pending crisis

Plans are all set
To raise the rent
Change the tenant's
Demographics

Ten empty houses in a row
Families with nowhere else to go
Eviction notice on the door
Punished again for being poor

If there's an answer, I don't know
There's people buying city blocks with the intent to watch them fall
What kind of men are in control?
And how disconnected can they get
Before we put a stop to it?

Hey! White flight!

Discrepancies are much clearer
When they're not down dead end streets
There would be much less fear
If we questioned our beliefs

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from The Sound of Urban Decay, released December 27, 2015

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