Filthy Slums
Your hungry eyes pierce the screen
Now you're climbing the walls
Hanging between two precarious arches
With a cheeky grin
Toe to toe in a wire trap
Paper peeling like tears
Babies held under a black hole
A window cries for help
Filthy slums what have you become?
Now the soul has gone
Filthy slums what have you become?
Gentrified and glum
Half a face in shadow solemn
Abandoned to the ghostly light
This one looks like a prison cell
Held together with twine
Under springs the bugs are jumping
The girl's face a sorry tale
Of the poison that lurks in water
She played in yesterday
Filthy slums what have you become?
Now the soul has gone
Filthy slums what have you become?
Gentrified and glum
In the valley where JRR played
Lie a hundred thousand bricks
That used to crumble around their ears
Before they cleared Birmingham's slums
Now you're climbing the walls
Hanging between two precarious arches
With a cheeky grin
Toe to toe in a wire trap
Paper peeling like tears
Babies held under a black hole
A window cries for help
Filthy slums what have you become?
Now the soul has gone
Filthy slums what have you become?
Gentrified and glum
Half a face in shadow solemn
Abandoned to the ghostly light
This one looks like a prison cell
Held together with twine
Under springs the bugs are jumping
The girl's face a sorry tale
Of the poison that lurks in water
She played in yesterday
Filthy slums what have you become?
Now the soul has gone
Filthy slums what have you become?
Gentrified and glum
In the valley where JRR played
Lie a hundred thousand bricks
That used to crumble around their ears
Before they cleared Birmingham's slums
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Writer(s): Joseph Peacock
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