A E F#m D Every house on the block got sold to the city A E F#m D It’s sad, but some offers you just can’t refuse A E F#m D Mortar and brick once towering tall A E D A When a city is changing, you can’t have it all [Chorus] A E F#m D Now the building’s a bike shop where we went to high school A E F#m D The house where my mother lived is a restaurant A E F#m D The old public housing holds gallery art walks A E D A The tourists all ask where the wine tasting is [Bridge] F#m A E Dm Dm And all the pneumatic drills and old bribes in the paper F#m A E Dm Dm Machinery thrashing and blowing off steam F#m A E Dm Dm Big business and councilmen laughing about it F#m A E Dm If you’ve got the permits, you can do what you please [Chorus] A E F#m D Now the bulldozers tumble out over the rocks A E F#m D And the mold in the clapboard is making me sick A E F#m D Some worker in denim keeps calling me Linda A E D A I sign all his papers, but that’s not my name A E D A I pocket his money and then walk away