Ghetto

Ghetto, ghetto

Ghetto, ghetto livin'

These streets remind me of 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' (Fallin', keep on fallin')

No one can hear you callin'

So you end up self-destructin'

On the corner, with the toolie on the waistline

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, ay

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 (Ghetto livin')

No need to cherish luxries

'Cause everything come and go

(It 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 (Be your last)

Once you move forward, can't go back

Just prepare to remove your past (Remove your past)

'Cause you gotta be willin' to pray

Yes, there gotta be, there gotta be a better way, oh

Yes, you gotta be willin' to pray

'Cause there gotta be, there gotta be a better day, ay

(Better day, ay)

Whoever said that the struggle would stop today?

A lot a **** 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, thats the life (Ghetto livin')

When you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (Ghetto)

Ghetto, ghetto (Ghetto livin')

Gun shots every night in the (Ghetto)

Crooked cops on sight in the (Ghetto)

Every day 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 livin')

That's the life

When you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, livin' by the (Ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (Ghetto)

Yeah (That's the life when you're)

Livin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (Ghetto)

Livin' in the (Ghetto)

Ghetto, ghetto (Ghetto livin')