Redline (Dérive) Songtext
von Rent Strike

Drunk on the sunlight
I was floating through
All the streets on the other side
Of the neighborhood

Over the dirt roads
That still survive
As the rest of the wide, wide world
Was asphaltified

Oh, and the living here′s gotten less easy
The backdrop and the scenery
Have gotten a whole lot harder to look at
Ever since
They put up the fence
And they built 496

I got lost on my way home
I got all turned around
If you let the streets take you where they want
Sometimes they'll run you right out of town


And ruination, new development
One in the same in the sunset
As asleep on my feet I went
Under the overpass

Where the workers come
And the capital
Neatly flows through the city
To the capitol

And the shadows beneath
Never seem to see the light of day
Well that shadow keeps growing
And God help you if you get in the way

Now the highway chokes like a tourniquet
Too tight
And necrosis has spread to the flesh and this limb has been
Left to die

And on the avenue, the
New streetlights shine for the very first time.
My spirit
Re enters
My body
As I cross the Redline


But in more and more of the vacant lots
There′ve been growing more and more
Little garden plots