Ghetto

Ghetto, ghetto

Ghetto, ghetto livin'

These streets remind me of quicksand(quicksand)

When you're on it

You'll keep goin' down(goin' down)

And there's no one to hold on to

And there's no one to pull you out

You keep on fallin'

No one can hear you callin'

So you end up self-destructin'

On the corner

With the toolie on the waist line

Just got up out the thing doin' state time

Teeth marks on my back from the K-9

Dark memories of when there was no sunshine

'Cause they said that I wouldn't make it

I remember like yesterday

Holdin' on to what God gave me

'Cause that's the life

When you're livin' in the (ghetto)

And eatin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto)

Ghetto, that's the life

When you're livin' in the (ghetto)

And eatin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the ghetto ghetto ghetto

No need to cherish luxuries

'Cause everything come and go

Even the life that you have is borrowed

'Cause you're not promised tomorrow

So live your life

As if every day is gon' be your last

Once you've moved forward

You can't go back just to remove your past

'Cause you gotta be willin' to pray

Yes, there gotta be

There gotta be a better way

Yes, you gotta be willin' to pray

'Cause there gotta be

There gotta be a better day

Whoever said that

The struggle would stop today

A lot a niggas dead or locked away

Teenage women growin' up with AIDS

'Cause that's the life

When you're livin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto)

Ghetto, that's the life

When you're livin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the ghetto ghetto ghetto

Gun shots every night in the (ghetto)

Crooked cops on sight in the (ghetto)

Everyday is a fight in the (ghetto)

Oh oh oh oh oh (ghetto livin')

Got kids to feed in the (ghetto)

Sellin' coke and weed in the (ghetto)

Everyday somebody bleed in the (ghetto)

Oh oh oh oh oh (ghetto)

That's the life

When you're livin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, livin' by the (ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (ghetto)

That's the life

When you're livin' in the (ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto)

Livin' in the ghetto ghetto ghetto