The Ghetto-Too $hort

[00:00.00] 作词 : Donny Hathaway/Leroy Hutson/Todd Shaw/Al Eaton [00:01.00] 作曲 : Donny Hathaway/Leroy Hutson/Todd Shaw/Al Eaton [00:05.47]Talking bout the ghetto [00:10.84]funky funky ghetto [00:15.76]Trying to survive [00:19.46]trying to stay alive [00:21.12]The ghetto [00:27.15]（Talking bout the ghetto） [00:30.56]The ghetto [00:36.69](Funk funky ghetto) [00:39.54]Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out [00:42.79]**** fiends die with a pipe in their mouths [00:45.18]Old school buddies not doing it right [00:47.35]Every day it's the same [00:48.40]And it's the same every night [00:49.66]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool [00:52.10]If he played me close and tried to test my cool [00:54.60]Every day I wonder just how I'll die [00:56.95]Only thing I know is how to survive [00:59.50]There's only one rule in the real world [01:01.74]And that's to take care of you, only you and yours [01:04.18]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day [01:06.58]Might deal me some shit but then crime don't pay [01:09.03]Black man tried to break into my house again [01:11.28]Thought he got off early doing time in the pen [01:13.88]Even though my brothers do me just like that [01:16.23]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the [01:18.55]The ghetto [01:20.04]（Talking bout the ghetto） [01:23.31]The ghetto [01:24.93](Funk funky ghetto) [01:28.23]The ghetto [01:30.10]（Try live a life） [01:34.30]The ghetto [01:35.08]（Would tell about it TooShort） [01:37.55]So just peep the game and don't call it crap [01:40.07]Cause to me, life is one hard rap [01:42.50]Even though my sister smoked crack nigga [01:44.90]She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed [01:47.50]600 million on a footbal team [01:49.65]And her baby dies just like a **** fiend [01:52.27]The story I tell is so incomplete [01:54.56]Five kids in the house and no food to eat [01:56.95]Don't look at me and don't ask me why [01:59.46]Mama's next door getting high [02:01.71]Even though she's got five mouths to feed [02:04.16]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T [02:06.60]I always tell the truth about things like this [02:09.01]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list [02:11.30]Instead of adding to the task force send some help [02:13.83]Waiting on him I'd better help myself [02:16.24]Housing Authority and the O.P.D. [02:18.65]All these guns just to handle me in the [02:21.06]The ghetto [02:22.89](People all dying) [02:25.62]The ghetto [02:27.58](Children all Crying) [02:30.44]The ghetto [02:32.30](Soon had you lost your will) [02:35.27]The ghetto [02:36.68](Do we have choose or death) [02:40.03]The ghetto [02:44.28]Even though they put us down and call us animals [02:47.09]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes [02:49.50]Drive fancy cars, make love to stars [02:52.19]Never really saying just who we are [02:54.56] [02:57.06]Sell you stuff you might kill for [02:59.48]Young kids grow up and that's all they know [03:01.64]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin' shit [03:04.13]Only thing he knows is how to survive [03:06.34]But will he kill another brother before he dies? [03:08.75]In the ghetto, you keep one eye open [03:11.36]All day long, just hoping and hoping [03:13.62]You can pay your bills and not drink too much [03:16.11]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up [03:18.38]Like me, but you don't see [03:20.75]Ten years from now, where will you be? [03:23.10]The ghetto [03:26.85]（Tying get out the ghetto） [03:29.12]The ghetto [03:31.76]（But I got no place to go） [03:34.19]The ghetto [03:35.98]（Try to survive in hell of ghetto） [03:38.72]The ghetto [03:40.60]（Cuz that's only place that I know） [03:43.75]So much game in a Too rap [03:46.03]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black [03:48.48]Why you wanna act like someone else? [03:50.86]All you gotta do is just be yourself [03:53.24]We're all the same color underneath [03:55.38]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me [03:58.10]Never be ashamed of what you are [04:00.45]Proud to be black stand tall at heart [04:02.84]Even though some people give you no respect [04:05.16]Be intelligent, when you put em in check [04:07.52]Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way [04:09.83]And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say [04:12.42]So if you don't listen it's not my fault [04:14.90]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost [04:17.37]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth [04:19.71]While me and my peoples try to get out [04:21.97]The ghetto [04:50.02]undefined