This neighborhood is blighted   That's what the people say   Half the buildings are abandoned   And everything is grey   Half the kids have asthma   'Cause of the sewage plants nearby   And the mayor doesn't seem to care   If we live or die      That's the situation   Now let me take you to the part   The center of this neighborhood   What you could call the heart   A vacant lot of broken glass   For years that's what it's been   But the neighbors got together   Said this is where we will begin      (Chorus)   We'll dig this dirt   Plant a seed   Push aside the concrete   So the earth beneath is freed   We will plant a garden   Grow some food to eat   And the sunflowers looking to the sky   Say we relclaim this street      In one day we had accomplished   What the mayor always said   He was trying to bring us   Through his clubs upon our heads   The neighborhood is clean   The dealers gone away   We had good food to eat   A place for the kids to play      (Chorus)      Twice the city came here   Said this is not our land   Twice the cops destroyed it   All the work of our own hands   Uprooted plants and broken tools   Lay scattered all around   But the next day the only thing you could see   Was fingers in the ground      (Chorus)