The Ghetto-Too $hort

[00:00.000] 作词 : 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 shit 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 shit 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 shit [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 O.P.D. [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' shit [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)