The Ghetto歌詞

[00:00.000] 作詞 : Al Eaton/Todd Shaw/Leroy Hutson/Donny Hathaway
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Al Eaton/Todd Shaw/Leroy Hutson/Donny Hathaway
[00:05.160]Talking bout the ghetto, funky funky ghetto
[00:15.170]Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
[00:20.690]The ghetto
[00:25.390]The ghetto
[00:26.890](Talking bout the ghetto)
[00:30.140]The ghetto
[00:34.990]The ghetto
[00:36.240](Funk funky ghetto)
[00:39.050]Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
[00:42.300]**** fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:44.700]Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.100]Every day it's the same
[00:48.200]And it's the same every night
[00:49.460]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
[00:52.060]If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.610]Every day I wondered just how I'll die
[00:56.610]Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:58.980]There's only one rule in the real world
[01:01.378]And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
[01:03.979]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.379]Might deal me some **** but then crime don't pay
[01:08.578]Black man tried to break into my house again
[01:10.980]Thought he got off the **** doing time in the pen
[01:13.528]Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:15.730]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
[01:18.888]The ghetto
[01:20.090](Talking bout the ghetto)
[01:22.840]The ghetto
[01:24.388](Funk funky ghetto)
[01:27.688]The ghetto
[01:29.200](Trying to live our lives)
[01:32.400]The ghetto
[01:34.799]Wont ya tell ya buddy Too $hort
[01:37.000]So just peep the game and don't call it crap
[01:39.599]Cause to me, life is one hard rap
[01:41.810]Even though my sister smoked crack *******
[01:43.810]She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
[01:46.959]600 million on a football team
[01:49.159]And her baby dies just like a **** fiend
[01:51.909]The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.110]Five kids in the house and no food to eat
[01:56.659]Don't look at me and don't ask me why
[01:59.170]Mama's next door getting high
[02:01.168]Even though she's got five mouths to feed
[02:03.769]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
[02:06.069]I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:08.479]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:10.829]Instead of adding to the task force send some help
[02:13.489]Waiting on him I'd better help myself
[02:15.739]Housing Authority and the
[02:17.949]All these guns just to handle me in the
[02:20.500]The ghetto
[02:22.399]People all dying
[02:25.319]The ghetto
[02:26.970]Children are crying
[02:30.019]The ghetto
[02:31.979]Don't have enough to eat
[02:34.979]The ghetto
[02:36.379]Don't even have shoes on their feet
[02:39.889]The ghetto
[02:44.039]Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:46.739]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:48.889]Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
[02:51.589]Never really saying just who we are
[02:53.940]We use alias names like Too $hort
[02:56.569]Sell your stuff you might kill for
[02:58.819]Young kids grow up and that's all they know
[03:01.118]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin' ****
[03:03.519]Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:05.869]But will he kill another brother before he dies?
[03:08.419]In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
[03:11.119]All day long, just hoping and hoping
[03:13.419]You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:15.969]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
[03:18.119]Like me, but you don't see
[03:20.530]Ten years from now, where will you be?
[03:22.979]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:26.179]Tryin' to get out of the ghetto
[03:27.839]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:29.750]But I got no place to go
[03:32.549]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:34.799](Trying to survive in the heart of the ghetto)
[03:37.299]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[03:39.049]Cause that's the only place that I know
[03:42.449]So much game in a Too $hort rap
[03:44.699]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
[03:47.199]Why you want to act like someone else?
[03:49.360]All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:51.360]We're all the same color underneath
[03:53.959]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
[03:56.669]Never be ashamed of what you are
[03:59.019]Proud to be black stand tall at heart
[04:01.319]Even though some people give you no respect
[04:03.729]Be intelligent, when you put em in check
[04:06.079]Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
[04:08.479]And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
[04:11.588]So if you don't listen it's not my fault
[04:13.588]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
[04:15.930]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
[04:17.538]While me and my peoples try to get out
[04:20.639]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:23.339]Talking bout the ghetto
[04:24.699]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:28.000]Funky funky ghetto
[04:29.899]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:32.800](Trying to survive)
[04:34.610]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:37.560](Trying to stay alive)
[04:39.468]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:42.819]Funky funky ghetto
[04:44.120]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)
[04:47.129]Got no place else to go
[04:50.639]The ghetto (Talking bout the ghetto)