Ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto-living
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These streets remind me of quicksand
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When you're on it you'll keep going down
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And there's no one to hold on to
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And there's no one to pull you out
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You keep on falling
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And no one can hear you calling
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So you end up self-destructing
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On the corner with the toolie on the waist line
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Just got up out the thing doin' state time
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Teeth marks on my back from the K-9
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Dark memories of when there was no sunshine
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'Cause they said that I wouldn't make it
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I remember like yesterday
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Holding on to what God gave me
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'Cause that's the life
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When you're living in the ghetto
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And eating in the ghetto
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Or sleeping in the ghetto, ghetto
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'Cause that's the life
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When you're living in the ghetto
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And eating in the ghetto
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Or sleeping in the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
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No need to cherish luxuries
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'Cause everything come and go
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Even the life that you have is borrowed
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'Cause you're not promised tomorrow
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So live your life as if every day's gon' be your last
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Once you move forward can't go back
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Best prepare to remove your past
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'Cause you gotta be willing to pray
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Yes there gotta be, yeah, gotta be a better way
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Yes you gotta be willing to pray
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'Cause there gotta be, yeah, gotta be a better day
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Whoever said that this struggle would stop today
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A lot of niggas dead or locked away
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Teenage women growing up with AIDS
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'Cause that's the life
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When you're living in the ghetto
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Or eating in the ghetto
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Or sleeping in the ghetto, ghetto
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That's the life
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When you're living in the ghetto
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Or eating in the ghetto
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Or sleeping in the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
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Gun shots every night
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In the ghetto
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Crooked cops on sight
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In the ghetto
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Every day is a fight
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In the ghetto, ghetto
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Got kids to feed
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In the ghetto
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Selling coke and weed
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In the ghetto
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Every day somebody bleed
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In the ghetto, ghetto
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That's the life
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When you're living in the ghetto
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Or living by the ghetto
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Or eating in the ghetto, ghetto
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That's the life
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When you're living in the ghetto
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Or sleeping in the ghetto
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Living in the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto |