Ugly Beige from Aluminum 6 by ALUMINUM 6

Main Street - yeah cut the fuckin ribbon,
More ugly beige apartments for someone else to live in,
If the locals refuse to take the bait,
That’s ok - we’ve got new blood from out of state.

Salute your new creative class,
Spending all their daylight hours kissing boomer ass,
Beers with stupid names means we’re gentrified,
There ain’t nothing on the menu we won’t try,
Punk rock papas eatin’ tapas, my oh my.

Sand off the edges of our sordid past,
Clean it up and move along.
I don’t remember any good ol’ days,
Whatever those days were, I guess they’re gone.

On the bypass, loan sharks thrive,
Strip mall head shop gummies - scratch-off ticket lies.
They love to bleed the ones who got pushed out,
Steal their crumbs and keep ‘em in the clouds.

Rotten cross ties on the railroad tracks,
Plow’em up and move along,
I don’t remember any good ol’ days,
But whatever these days are, it still seems wrong.

See ’em lined up for a walking tour,
A dose of local history,
They can’t believe we let it happen here,
But it still happens down the street.
Yeah it still happens down the street.

And ugly beige is all the rage.
Ugly beige is all the rage.

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