Lyric Slumlord

Old battered building
Ready to condemn
High valued property
Expensive piece of land

Half filled with tenants
All poor on welfare
No heat or electricity
And slumlord doesn t care

Slumlord doesn t care (X2)

Millions in insurance
Covers the wrecked lot
And a week til it s condemned
Is all slumlord s got

He enters the basement
With three gallons of gas
And four hours later
There s nothing left but ash

Slumlord doesn t care (X2)

The newspapers all read
Forty die in blaze
Slumlord now thinks
That crime really pays

And two years later
A skyscraper appears
With a plaque in the memory
Of the forty that died here

Slumlord doesn t care (X2)