Old battered building

Ready to condemn

High valued property

Expensive piece of land



Half fill with tenants

All poor on welfare

No heat or electricity

And slumlord doesn't care



Slumlord doesn't care [x2]



Millions in insurance

Covers the wrecked lot

And a week till it's condemned

Is all slumlord's got



He enters the basement

With three gallons of gas

And four hours later

There's nothing but ash



Slumlord doesn't care [x2]



The newspaper's all read

Forty die in the blaze

Slumlord now thinks

That crime really pays



And two years later

A skyscraper appears

With a plaque in the memory

Of the forty that died here



Slumlord doesn't care [x2]