| Little ghetto boy
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| Playing in the ghetto street
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| What’cha gonna do when you grow up
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| And have to face responsibility?
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| Will you spend your days and nights in the pool room?
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| Will you sell caps of madness to the neighborhood?
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| Little ghetto boy
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| You already know how rough life can be
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| 'Cause you’ve seen so much pain and misery
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| Little ghetto boy
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| Your daddy was blown away
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| He robbed that grocery store
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| Don’t you know that was a sad, sad old day?
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| All of your young life
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| You’ve seen such a misery and pain
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| The world is a cruel place
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| And it ain’t gonna change
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| You’re so young, you’ve got so far to go
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| But I don’t think you’ll reach your goal
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| Young man, hanging 'round the pool room door
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| Look out, y’all…
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| Little ghetto boy
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| When, when, when you become a man
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| You can make things change, hey hey
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| If you just take a stand
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| You gotta believe in yourself and in all you do
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| You’ve gotta fight to make it better
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| You’ll see how other people will start believing too
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| My son, things will start to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better
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| Everything has got to get better… |