Worst Place 2 Be - Esham

They say we livin' in the worst place to be

What you call Hell is home to me

It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right

You see the potholes in the road

Street lights broke out

Three people found dead

Up in the dopehouse

If you ain’t gettin' paid

Must be smoked out

Blades on the Escalade

And you know they poke out

What you know about

Scared to death of goin' out

Streets are quiet as a mouse

Burglars breakin' in your house

Homie, let Detroit live

Let Detroit live

Ya’ll done took everything from us

We ain’t got no more to give

This world is full of saints and sinners

But Detroit city is full of winners

Man it’s cold like December

Michael Jackson, you remember

He was tryin' to put a amusement park downtown

But some silly clown had to tell him no

Why give out jobs in the ghetto

Let 'em stay po'

And ya’ll wonder why we can’t sco'

They done jacked the city up

Before Kwame a long time ago

(HOOK)

They say we livin' in the worst place to be

What you call Hell is home to me

It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right

They say we livin' in the worst place to be

What you call Hell is home to me

It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right

You see the Detroit public school system’s terrible

That make learning conditions unbearable

Ever since the Young Boy put the crack in hand

Got the neighborhoods lookin' like Pakistan

What’s happenin', what’s the action plan

Foreclose on your home for the taxes and

You sittin' still, it’s gettin' real

Lot of people done split right up out of Hitsville

Where did we go wrong, once we were strong

I’m slippin' but I’m losin' my grip and I’m holdin' on

Where’s the Spirit of Detroit, it can’t be gone

We gonna make it through the storm

Ya’ll it won’t be long

(HOOK)

They say we livin' in the worst place to be

What you call Hell is home to me

It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right

(OUTRO)

Right now in Detroit, you going to have to say it

Even to the casual observer, is on its death bed

And the issue is what type of CPR can we administer Detroit to take it off the

deathbed it’s on now

I mean you look at it… it's a, it’s a broke city

It’s a city uh, that’s saddled with corruption

It’s a city where the public school system, bar none is the worst in America

And we’ve got a mess on our hands in Detroit