Burn City

[Verse 1: Pegz]
They say life's not worth livin' in Burn City
Work forty hours a week until you turn sixty
Earn fifty grand a year, debt for eternity
No sleep, no rest is a certainty
We choose to adhere, persuin' careers
Like border men on parades, the brute with sincere
Losing our rights, using our fears
Burn City, one day I'll be moving from here
Goin' back to the cave, the embrionic stage
Before the, black clouds and atomic rain
Before the, black wave on Boxing Day
Before the, man-made economic plague
Burn City lost her way, she's not the same
She forgot about the streets we populate
So we compensate in a lot of ways
And intoxicate ourselves to stop the pain

[Hook: Pegz and Kye]
Burn City, what happened to the passion we had?
I know you like the back of my hand
Burn City, I told you I'd be packing my bags
If you ever turned your back on my fam
Burn City, that's the sound of an angry crowd singing
"Burn this bitch to the ground!"
Burn, burn, burn, Burn City

[Verse 2: Pegz]
Yeah, I see blue collars sweating, their families stressing
I see, white collars on anti-depressants
I see, unemployed looking anxiously reckless
Everybody's trying to manage gravity's pressures
Has the standard of livin' gradually risen?
We're like battery hens, mechanically driven
And it's hard to explain like humanity's vision
And who's to blame for the planet's condition?
Every day, another chapter is written with passionate lyrics
Another character witness is tragically missing
Another young kid's landed in prison
We all slip through the cracks and abandon the system
Burn City, you don't own the streets
We closed our minds and postponed our dreams
You sold us out and promoted greed
But you won't defeat my people's only beef

[Hook: Pegz and Kye]
Burn City, what happened to the passion we had?
I know you like the back of my hand
Burn City, I told you I'd be packing my bags
If you ever turned your back on my fam
Burn City, that's the sound of an angry crowd singing
"Burn this bitch to the ground!"
Burn, burn, burn, Burn City

[Verse 3: Pegz]
We lose confidence glued to computer monitors
Worlds apart within a few kilometres
I still love it but it's never the same
Yesterday she dreads the bay like empty space
Before, dust settled on the temperature gauge
She build apartments on a resident's grave
And, at the end of the day, reckless, insane
Burn City spiked a river like a heroin vein
I know things change when Centrelink pay
The streets are regulated like a benefit claim
And my generation has made petrometal mistakes
But every step we take up

[Hook: Pegz and Kye]
Burn City, what happened to the passion we had?
I know you like the back of my hand
Burn City, I told you I'd be packing my bags
If you ever turned your back on my fam
Burn City, that's the sound of an angry crowd singing
"Burn this bitch to the ground!"
Burn, burn, burn, Burn City

[Outro: Kye]
Well I made it this far, built it all from scratch
When all things were looking bad, yo I needed to step back
So I gripped all my senses and I pushed on through
And I got out of that mess and I saw the light