White (With Black Shutters)

Why re-pave the roads, they'll only drive faster

The next thing they'll turn this place into a fast-food disaster

Corporate affluence furnishes living room museums

Storybook hamlets, tourists slow down to see 'em

Aesthetic fascism sucks the color out of this town

If it's not black and white, better make it gray or brown

It's four acre zoning so if you can't afford it yet

Then go live in places we're trying to forget

We've got enough folks here, sure don't need more

They might crowd our view, this quaintness is well paid for

Don't need development, we need zero growth

Progress or exclusiveness - can't have both

Why build rental housing, already too much space

For those without the means to widen the tax base

More luxury condos might be just fine

Maids and cooks and caretakers can live somewhere up the line

Won't find vagrants sprawled in our gutters

We've corrected history, it's all white with black shutters

Some very rednecks under starched white collars

If only other hearts and hands controlled all those dollars

Human resources valued fewer pockets lined

If the minds with the money were otherwise inclined