We pimp our houses, our cars, our kitchens

tear down one wall

put it up again

tear down another wall

 

What about pimping my city?

What about pimping our city?

Filling it with colors in unexpected places

new forms and shapes

tearing down one wall

building up a jungle of plants somewhere else

let the words spread from the sheet of paper

to the wall

Filling it with colors and playground

light where darkness prevails

What about pimping our city?

 

And what about pimping our country?

Shake it around

Get new features in, new tastes

New colors, new flames

tripes at unknown places

new gears and brakes

where we least expect it

and cool gadgets of multitude

yeah

 

Size matters

say some

and reduce my pimping to my car

You can only pimp what is yours

even your whores

But hold your horses for the rest

cause the city does not belong to your chest!

No it does not

but why would I protect the rest

that thing outside of my chest

if I don’t feel part of it?

Why would I protect the rest

anything outside of my chest

if I don’t feel part of it?

Size matters

Length too

my eyes need a horizon of hope!

Where we construct the city

And not the city that construct us

It is a concrete jungle

But can be a concrete dream

when we get to play with it

play in it

 

You can only pimp what is yours

what you own

Well what about my own city?

Who owns our own city?

Not even the language is enough to take care of reality here

Who owns our own city?

 

We lost track of the rainbow when the buildings got too tall

the mental ones

but we are only a couple of blocks away from freedom

 

Cause what about a sauna

at the headquarters of the government?

Would the decisions be more or less cool

if they were taking within or without a sauna?

What if the street lights and

falling leaves had a say

and not only a feeling

about the city planning?

What if the street fights and

falling wives had a say

and not only a feeling

about the city planning?

 

Pimp

I don’t believe in prostitution

selling things for moneys

against one’s will

But Hey some sold out this city

far too long ago

It has been pimped by others for so long now

Forces of market

Well I put that truth up for sale

cause it is time to pimp democracy

with some content

 

Written 2010 and 2011, edited 2013