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Peak #797
Peak in subgenre #431
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November 30, 2008
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MP3 2.9 MB • 112 kbps • 3:40
Lyrics
Where there is no struggle there is no progress
The destiny of the ghetto child is the destiny of America, people.
These are words for my Dream Children
My gotta build self esteem children
I hope they live to 17 - children
Feeling pain, I say these things out of love
Call you brother, call you sister, I'm as real as your blood
Pouring liquor in the memory of thugs that I've known
But in retrospect they're only kids who never got grown
You are strong for living through a lifestyle so wild
When people are so foul and evil... ghetto child
I hate to see you wonder how you're gonna make it out alive
Yesterday a drive-by. You pray? But friends die
I had five go in one summer! I understand the pressure you're under
But never wonder if somebody loves ya.
That's why I call you brother and sister - baby dream!
Life is a relay race - we're on the same team
And I'm passing the baton of the Kings and the Queens
Through commmunity cause unity is what freedom brings. Brother sing!
Ghetto Child, you were born
You've been through....
so many trails and tribulations
Ghetto Child, life goes on
And through this song...
You will be closer to the truth that you were living on.
I have dreams of having dream babies
I wanna treat you all like queens, ladies
It breaks my heart when you're being shady
It's crazy how condition's splitting us up
Pimping came from slavery, baby, the system's corrupt - but
I have a vision for a better tommorrow
That's why I feel the pain addressing the sorrow
Because we're living on borrowed time... some people want me in a chalk line
Cause I'm just a black prince with the balls to speak his mind
What's crime? We have a right to hustle! Life's a struggle
But you have to utilize your heart - that's your righteous muscle!
Anything you build can crumble, baby - humble yourself
Here today, gone tommorrow - thank the Lord for your Health!
That's your wealth - something else we don't know
Ghetto child lifestyle is a gift from God, though
Cause the ghetto child glows in the heart from the start
You've got what it takes to make it - you can walk through the dark
Ghetto child...
Ghetto Child, you were born
You've been through....
so many trails and tribulations
Ghetto Child, life goes on
And through this song...
You will be closer to the truth that you were living on.
These are words for my cool children
getting high behind the school building
Man, I feel what the hell you're feeling.
Still it's my responsibility son, to treat you like a son.
Even though I've yet to have one
Young, I'm from the same place, the same state where you at
But life was tougher back then. We laid punks on their backs
And bammas clapped a little more from tech nines to 44s
Selling drugs and pimping whores because we hated being poor
Life's a war, ghetto children... Society, they lie to us...
Building prisons cause the system doesn't value us...
But our science is that of calculus, young
What goes around comes around and our circle ain't done!
Our ancestors sung songs of Zion - the Tribe of Judah
Even Bob Marely repped with the Lion and smoked the Buddah
We're climbing to the highest of heights
IF you get lost in the dark; know your heart's got the light!
Ghetto Child....
