We need to help out others
Understanding that's not hard
We need more public housing
Just "Not In My Back Yard"
I'll hang out with your prostitutes
I'll even wash your feet
Just don't put in the high rise housing
Where Shaw and Glen Avenue meet

Now compassion is a virtue
But in Fresno that can hurt you
We all need human dignity
And housing at an affordable price
But for the property in question
You know the project's just too large
And you might be right if you thought
Some lunatic's been left in charge
Soon you'll have seven stories staring down
In some suburban sucker's side yard
With a little booth by your bedroom window
For the armed security guard
And after every car drives through
The iron gate slams hard
This is what the signs say in everyone's front yard

Traffic, Pollution, Congestion!
Traffic, Pollution, Congestion!

Quiet residential little neighborhood
Won't be good..
Inundated hundred daily trips
The word "insipid" rolls off your lips
The phrase "Insipid Urban Planning" rolls
It just rolls off your lips.
It'sinsipidurbanplanningit'sinsipidurbanplanningit'simsipidurbanplanning

Backed against a constant traffic jam
Instead they'll all drive by where I am
Tires squealing, fentanyl dealing
Sideshows on my quiet quaint lane
Diaper dumping stereo thumping diaperdumpingstereothumpingdiaperdumpingstereothumping
And we'll have
Traffic, Pollution, Congestion
Traffic, Pollution, Congestion

Oh man, don't get me wrong
I love single mothers and drug dealers
Just examining all the details, and the angles of this song
There's four....

You've got your development and re-development players
And a shocking lack of thoughts and prayers
From the big business churches that run this town
They offer political coverage for the powerful
Blessings for donations
Credibility to the corrupt culture of the construction corporations
And for all the tainted tithings that flow into their coffers
You know they're laundering good will for all the money Satan offers
For their diabolically evil public relations seeking clients
For developers in a Fresno, it's elementary political science
It's elementary, my dear Fresno

More pavement, More Jesus, Six lanes to Pismo!
More Pavement, More Jesus, Six lanes to Pismo!

Ok, you bougie rich entitled racists
Are always letting us know what you think
If there's a whiff of fairness for the under privileged
Oh, you're gonna make a stink
But no, not everything's about you
Or your self victimization
Or your economic stigmatization
Or your racial discrimination
Or your corruption served up Fresno Style
Or your Jim Crow laws held all the while
Or your ongoing red-lining
To which Whitey's always taken a shining
Like a child, I hear your constant whining
About people ( like you) that don't belong here
Or your fortified white guilt that you've translated into fear

Oh, actually it IS all about that and more
But mostly
Shelter, Affordable Housing!
Shelter, Affordable Housing!

"Hey! Let's form a committee!
We'll end homelessness in the city!
More profitable to pretend to be involved
We'll clear em out and call the problem solved
We'll get a grant and blow it
Don't need results to show for it
Cause in the profitable private sector
We do just what we please
Which is follow the trail of money
Motives never altruistic
No concern for housing homeless
Making money's more realistic
It's the public face of advocacy
Skimming and grifting bureaucracy
Whoops! We spent that money all on us?
Let's consult our records....

Paid for lots of studies
Got massages in Carmel California
Luxurious lunches at the winery where we all swore not to tell
Not to tell about our families European getaway no pay vacay
Paid for by the public well it's in our interest not to tell
It's inourinterestnottotellit'sinourinterestnottotell....
But to help the homeless go to hell
Cause they haven't ever bought a hot tub or a deck for me
Some snow tires, or hookers, or cheap business suits
Cocaine bricks and hookers from the South side
Or hookers all filled with cocaine
So we'll just deny them their humanity
And get our own signs manufactured
Getourownsignsmanufacturedgetourownsignsmanufactured
Get our own signs made that just say

More Studies! Fat Paychecks! Blue Ribbon Panels!
More Studies! Fat Paychecks! Blue Ribbon Panels! "

(Room quad-sected, encouraged to "Fight Like Hell ")
( Left Center) TRAFFIC, POLLUTION, CONGESTION!!
TRAFFIC, POLLUTION, CONGESTION!!
( Far Right) MORE PAVEMENT, MORE JESUS, SIX LANES TO PISMO
MORE PAVEMENT, MORE JESUS, SIX LANES TO PISMO!
(Far Left) SHELTER, AFFORDABLE HOUSING!
SHELTER, AFFORDABLE HOUSING!!
(Right Center) MORE STUDIES! FAT PAYCHECKS! BLUE RIBBON PANELS!
MORE STUDIES! FAT PAYCHECKS! BLUE RIBBON PANELS!!