[Intro: Corporate Voice, Cool Adult Spoken]
Welcome to Calder.
Please watch the unfinished stairs.
The tenants are temporary.
The returns are projected.

[Verse 1: Corporate Voice, Cool Adult Spoken-Rap]
Paint over pencil marks, sand down the frame,
Remove every trace of the last tenant's name.
Expose all the brick, make the pipework look raw;
Call the knocking "character," ignore what caused it all.
Transit is near and the labor is cheap,
The block has momentum, the margins run deep.
Do not say "family" when "occupant" will do;
Do not say "eviction." Say "turnover came through."

[Pre-Chorus: Corporate Voice, Cool Adult Spoken-Rap]
Measure the window, measure the wall.
Do not count the names in the hall.
Package the sunrise, stage every room.
Sell what they lived in as space coming soon.

[Chorus: Corporate Voice, Cool Adult Spoken-Rap]
Open house, come admire the view;
Fresh paint hides what the last family went through.
Open house, every room earns yield,
Every kitchen, every key gets priced and sealed.
Open house, keep the language clean;
Profit looks harmless on a polished screen.

[Verse 2: Corporate Voice, Cool Adult Spoken-Rap]
Here was a bedroom; picture a suite.
Here was a table; remove it this week.
A nurse lived here with her son and a cat;
Her income did not match the rent on the app.
This wall held photos, birthdays, and height,
But plaster sells faster when everything is white.
The fund buys the building; tax money fixes stairs;
The brochure calls it "value." The old renter disappears.

[Chorus: Corporate Voice, Cool Adult Spoken-Rap]
Open house, come admire the view;
Fresh paint hides what the last family went through.
Open house, every room earns yield,
Every kitchen, every key gets priced and sealed.
Open house, keep the language clean;
Profit looks harmless on a polished screen.

[Breakdown: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
You called my mother "occupant load,"
Called our broken elevator part of the old.
Called Rafi's closing "retail rebirth,"
Called our leaving "unlocking worth."
Soft words keep the hard part out of view;
A polished sales pitch pushes people through.

[Verse 3: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
The investors nod when the columns align;
One asks how soon they can clear out mine.
The agent marks late rent in amber and red,
Turns Ma's double shift into risk on a spread.
He circles our unit and taps it twice:
"Good light, clean layout, under-market price."
Through the open window, Lila's handbell rings;
He smiles: "That's the local charm the brochure brings."

[Bridge: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
White walls do not tell you what the move-out cost.
A clean sales sheet leaves every worker lost.
Each square on your chart has a hand on the rail,
A key in a pocket, a name in the mail.

[Final Chorus: Narrator, Young Female Rap]
Open house, take another look inside;
Fresh paint cannot cover who was pushed aside.
Every room earns yield when a household gets cleared;
Profit looks harmless when the people disappear.
[Final Response: Corporate Voice, Cool Adult Spoken]
Open house. Please proceed with the tour.

[Outro: Narrator, Young Female Spoken]
They leave with brochures.
We stay in the hallway,
standing inside their forecast.
