GHETTO

These streets remind me of quicksand When you're on it You keep going down And there's no one to hold on to And there's no one to pull you out You keep on falling No one can hear you calling So you end up self-destructing On the corner with the tooly on the waste line Just got up out the pin doing 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 Holding on to what God gave me 'Cause that's the life when you're living in the Ghetto And eating in the Ghetto Oh sleeping in the Ghetto That's the life when you're living in the Ghetto And eating in the Ghetto Oh sleeping in the Ghetto ghetto oh No need to cherish luxuries 'Cause everything come and go Even the life that you have is borrowed 'Cause your not promised tomorrow So live your life as if every day's gon' be your last Push and move forward, can't go back Just pretend to remove your past 'Cause you got to be willing to pray Yes there go to be, you got to be a better way Yes you got to be willing to pray 'Cause there got to be, you got to be a better day Whoever said that the struggle would stop today A lot of niggas dead or locked away Teenage Women growing up with AIDS 'Cause that's the life when you're living in the Ghetto And eating in the Ghetto Oh sleeping in the Ghetto That's the life when you're living in the Ghetto Oh eating in the Ghetto Oh sleeping in the Ghetto ghetto Gun shots every night in the Ghetto Look at cops on sight in the Ghetto Everyday is a fight in the Ghetto Oh oh oh oh Ghetto Got kids to feed in the Ghetto Selling coke and weed in the Ghetto Everyday somebody bleed it the Ghetto Oh oh oh oh That's the life when you're living in the Ghetto Oh living by the Ghetto Oh eating in the Ghetto yeah oh That's the life when you're living in the Ghetto Oh sleeping in the Ghetto living in the Ghetto ghetto oh