I work on belmont, but I live in wicker park   All my friends are bartenders in all the coolest bars   My girlfriend's in the coolest band that you've ever seen   They play the empty bottle every week.   I've got everything I need.   my loft, my motorcycle, my hip restaurant down the street   and my neighbors are all artists or hot girls over 18   who needs community when you live right in your scene?   Frim Jinx to Betty's Blue Star,   everybody knows my name   From north avenue down to Augusta   everybody's all the same   It's a playground fueled by beer   No Chicagoans live here.   It's geography ound tightly by big city dreams.   And when the property value's raised   you'll be on your merry ways   Like the poor outclassed families before you   You've already paved Ashland to Western   Chicago to North avenue   Congratulations kids, your shallow model city is sinking.   You've become what you swore that you'd never be.