Redevelopment

Oak beams and cobbled streets were weathered
We to, an imagined past, are tethered
Those streets have not been there forever
Nostalgia can't keep them together

Decay
Makes way
As we pave
Our way to a future of concrete anonymity

High rise and underpasses weathered
Cladding can't hold it all together
Estate town down and multi-storey blown up
Condemned as a 1960s hiccup

Decay
Makes way
As we build
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 going to be?

Redevelop, redevelopment
Redevelop, redevelopment
Redevelop, redevelopment
Redevelop, redevelopment