Ghetto - Alborosie

Ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto-living

These streets remind me of quicksand

When you're on it you'll 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

And no one can hear you calling

So you end up self-destructing

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

Holding on to what God gave me

'Cause that's the life

When you're living in the ghetto

And eating in the ghetto

Or sleeping in the ghetto, ghetto

'Cause that's the life

When you're living in the ghetto

And eating in the ghetto

Or sleeping 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's gon' be your last

Once you move forward can't go back

Best prepare to remove your past

'Cause you gotta be willing to pray

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

Yes you gotta be willing to pray

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

Whoever said that this 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

Or eating in the ghetto

Or sleeping in the ghetto, ghetto

That's the life

When you're living in the ghetto

Or eating in the ghetto

Or sleeping in the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto

Gun shots every night

In the ghetto

Crooked cops on sight

In the ghetto

Every day is a fight

In the ghetto, ghetto

Got kids to feed

In the ghetto

Selling coke and weed

In the ghetto

Every day somebody bleed

In the ghetto, ghetto

That's the life

When you're living in the ghetto

Or living by the ghetto

Or eating in the ghetto, ghetto

That's the life

When you're living in the ghetto

Or sleeping in the ghetto

Living in the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto