Old battered building
Ready to condemn
High valued property
Expensive piece of land
Half filled 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 `til it`s condemned
Is all slumlord`s got
He enters the basement
With three gallons of gas
And four hours later
There`s nothing left but ash
Slumlord doesn`t care (X2)
The newspapers all read
Forty die in 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)