"Madeleine Avenue" lyrics

Madeleine Avenue hood
Real people giving birth
To continue the love
And somehow raise a family
Coming out of sheer subsistence
Come circumstances grim
Plain out of our control here
Yet you victimize and distance

And oh, oh no
How dare you call this my street of shame

Madeleine Avenue hood
Where love is lived and lost
At the sacred human cost
Over weeping hearts of mothers
And the workless working class
On the edge of every minute
And yet nonchalant, you shame our spirits

Why are we seen as broken down?
How dare you call this my street of shame
Oh, oh no
How dare you call this my street of shame

When we are all to blame for this
This legacy is losers
With criminal intentions
Strictly kept behind the boarding
While the bourgeois faces grin
Over houses, liars and sin
Covered up and bulldozed in
On a street called Madeleine Avenue
Madeleine Avenue

Madeleine Avenue hood
Where we disassemble homes
Where we're relocating tenants
To new digs within Glen Innes
Just a curse across the street
From a house not full of angels
Just a stone's throw away
From obliterating history here

And oh, oh no
How dare you call this my street of shame
Oh, oh no
How dare you call this my street of shame

(Have I ever met you on the street of shame?)
(Have I ever met you on the street of shame?)
(Have I ever met you on the street of shame?)
(Have I ever met you on the street of shame?...)