Little Child Runnin' Wild

Little child

Runnin' wild

Watch a while

You see he never smiles

Broken home

Father gone

Mama tired

So he's all alone

Kind of sad

Kind of mad

Ghetto child

Thinkin' he's been had

In the back of his mind he's sayin'

Didn't have to be here

You didn't have to love for me

While I was just a nothin' child

Why couldn't they just let me be

Let me be, let me be, let me be?

One-room shack

On the alley-back

Control, I'm told

From across the track

Where is the mayor

Who'll make all things fair?

He lives outside

Our polluted air

And I didn't have to be here

You didn't have to love for me

While I was just a nothin' child

Why couldn't they just let me be

Let me be, let me be, let me be?

I got a jones

Runnin' through my bones

I'm sorry, son

All your money's gone

Painful rip

In my upper hip

I guess it's time

To take another trip

Don't care now what nobody say

I got to take the pain away

It's getting worser day by day

And all my life, it's been this way

Can't reason with the pusherman

Finance is all that he understands

You junkie, mama cries, you know

Would rip her, but I love her so

Love her so, now