Lonesome for Her Heroes

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 You would mine it all For ones and zeroes And now Denver is Lonesome for heroes Now no one can pay rеnt 'Cause they can't afford to live thеre 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 You would mine it all For ones and zeroes And now Denver is Lonesome for 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 swine I saw a future where The pavement ran to 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 You would mine it all For ones and zeroes And now Denver is Lonesome for heroes