Testi With Ashen Hands Around Our Throats - Underdark

With Ashen Hands Around Our Throats

Black clouds plume over the capital and the ash starts to fall
Grey snow, Black rain in the summer streets
60 hours burning, death creeps into homes through the cladding Flames dance
through corridors
Human cost, stay put, no profit loss
Blood and ash on the hands of landlords
We still bleed by the month for the privilege of living in a time bomb
Resist to regulate, launch inquests in the hopes we all forget
The invisible hand revealed by the stains that mark it (It's choking us,
We’re dying here, 3rd degree casualty)
So we stay displaced, one eye to the fire escape
Black our lungs, become statistics to drive change
Renovations paid for in lives; Innocence and negligence
Death calls, but never says who’s at fault
How many lives till they answer for their crimes?
Blood and ash on the hands of landlords
And look what embers remain
3 days pain
2 years and counting, we remain
Look them in the eyes and say what you tell yourself; we made our money though
Clear out your conscience, what’s it worth? Justified inactions
We pay up and wait to burn
Do you think you can’t be touched?
Everyone who did this has a face, name, address
If they think they’re fireproof, they are wrong