Downtown

[Verse One: Mcenroe] Back as a kid it was on and popping At the downtown mall where we all were shopping With every kind of store that you'd imagine At the height of fashion, well, at least for Brandon Every Saturday we would pack the parque And meet the whole crew meeting at the arcade So many choices, and toy stores and food courts Let to our devices, we just might storm the two floors Every department, of Eden's or Hudson's Bay Is where you'd see us, except maybe lingerie But downtown now, everything's gone away No more paddle wheel, barely a sad cafe Everything boarded up to give the bulldozer room One theater closed up, the other is closing soon Once was a sporting goods, restaurant and mall stops Is now a sorry hood with nothing but pawn shops Nothing sold as new, everything is second hand And they'll close soon too, wait for the wrecking man Maybe it's evolution, maybe it's bad luck Prove the only solution is stay and go bankrupt [?] and it might mean them And tear down a tower built in 1910 Nothing to do, and we're turning away As we celebrate our history of urban decay [Hook: Mcenroe] The shops close early Downtown It's gotten so dirty Downtown Boarded and padlocked Downtown Home of the have nots Downtown Who's going Downtown Nothing is Downtown Who's going Downtown Not me, not me [Verse Two: Pip Skid] Back as a kid, I'd take my measly salary Into downtown and hit the Brandon Gallery Get the barber to shave a few lines Fuck a bus, I'll walk, maybe save a few dimes And in these times, people despise rap Said it wouldn't last and it sounded like crap Trying to get your hands on some tapes was tough There was only one place that really carried the stuff The Country Music Store had such selection Cassettes, cas-singles and records to my collection Then depression set in and technology changed Why pay for musical books in this day and age? And in a rage, some shop keepers lost it One took his life, went down with the profit Cough it up or they're changing the locks Even take the batteries up outta the clocks While Wal-Marts stock seems to rise to the top Even with two McDonalds in one block Get fries with your pop and make it a meal Discover a debt downtown, see how it feel Like looking at the tape of an old ship that sunk One of the only things you get downtown is drunk All sales final, no hope for the business Chased away by the big box, aye, what is this? [Hook]