Lonesome for Her Heroes - Five Iron Frenzy

The city’s — gentrified

Commitees — mollified

The place I said I’d die

The tenants scraping by

And now the avenue

Rocks class-war deja vu

It swims in high champagne

From selling nature like a retail chain

You would gain the world, but lose your heart

You would bleed the colors from your art

You would strip the life from every verse

You will sell your soul to reimburse

For you would mine it all

For ones and zeroes

And now Denver is

Lonesome for her heroes

Now no on cane pay rent

'Cause thy can’t afford to live there

A playground for the one-percent

So put the middle class on welfare

Just pour the sparkling wine

Ignore the burning pines

You sold our birthrights

But you made a couple dollar signs

You would gain the world, but lose your heart

You would bleed the colors from your art

You would strip the life from every verse

You will sell your soul to reimburse

For you would mine it all

For ones and zeroes

And now Denver is

Lonesome for her heroes

I saw the last sun set

Die on the star’s last shrine

The city was our only hope

To save the columbines

And now the heroes gone

Their city cast to the swine

I saw a future where

The pavement ran to the timberline

You would gain the world, but lose your heart

You would bleed the colors from your art

You would strip the life from every verse

You will sell your soul to reimburse

For you would mine it all

For ones and zeroes

And now Denver is

Lonesome for her heroes