The Ghetto, Pt. 1-Donny Hathaway

[00:00.00] 作词 : Donny Hathaway/Leroy Hutson [00:01.00] 作曲 : Donny Hathaway/Leroy Hutson [00:02.00] 制作人 : Donny Hathaway/Ric Powell [00:05.62]Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto [00:15.31]Trying to survive, trying to stay alive [00:20.88]The ghetto [00:27.14]{Talking bout the ghetto} [00:27.27]The ghetto [00:30.64]The ghetto [00:34.71]The ghetto [00:36.77]{Funk funky ghetto} [00:38.96]Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out [00:42.71]**** fiends die with a pipe in their mouths [00:45.21]Old school buddies not doing it right [00:47.21]Every day it's the same [00:48.83]And it's the same every night [00:49.84]I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool [00:52.08]If he played me close and tried to test my cool [00:54.52]Every day I wonder just how I'll die [00:56.84]Only thing I know is how to survive [00:59.15]There's only one rule in the real world [01:01.58]And that's to take care of you, only you and yours [01:04.09]Keep dealing with the hard times day after day [01:06.40]Might deal me some shit but then crime don't pay [01:08.96]Black man tried to break into my house again [01:11.34]Thought he got off early doing time in the pen [01:13.71]Even though my brothers do me just like that [01:16.03]I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the [01:18.39]The ghetto [01:28.02]The ghetto [01:37.50]So just peep the game and don't call it crap [01:40.02]Cause to me, life is one hard rap [01:42.33]Even though my sister smoked crack ****ing [01:44.82]She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed [01:47.20]600 million on a footbal team [01:49.45]And her baby dies just like a **** fiend [01:51.83]The story I tell is so incomplete [01:54.27]Five kids in the house and no food to eat [01:56.63]Don't look at me and don't ask me why [01:59.08]Mama's next door getting high [02:01.34]Even though she's got five mouths to feed [02:03.89]She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T [02:06.39]I always tell the truth about things like this [02:08.70]I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list [02:11.09]Instead of adding to the task force send some help [02:13.65]Waiting on him I'd better help myself [02:15.95]Housing Authority and the O.P.D. [02:18.40]All these guns just to handle me in the [02:20.84]The ghetto [02:25.71]The ghetto [02:43.30]Even though they put us down and call us animals [02:46.99]We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes [02:49.49]Drive fancy cars, make love to stars [02:51.93]Never really saying just who we are [02:54.37]We use alias names like TOOSHORT [02:57.05]Sell you stuff you might kill for [02:59.24]Young kids grow up and that's all they know [03:01.56]Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin shit [03:04.05]Only thing he knows is how to survive [03:06.43]But will he kill another brother before he dies? [03:08.69]In the ghetto, you keep one eye open [03:11.44]All day long, just hoping and hoping [03:13.74]You can pay your bills and not drink too much [03:15.93]Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up [03:18.30]Like me, but you don't see [03:20.75]Ten years from now, where will you be? [03:23.24]The ghetto [03:28.12]The ghetto [03:42.93]So much game in a Too rap [03:45.06]Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black [03:47.18]Why you wanna act like someone else? [03:49.56]All you gotta do is just be yourself [03:52.00]We're all the same color underneath [03:54.44]Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me [03:56.94]Never be ashamed of what you are [03:59.50]Proud to be black stand tall at heart [04:01.81]Even though some people give you no respect [04:03.94]Be intelligent, when you put em in check [04:06.25]Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way [04:08.75]And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say [04:11.19]So if you don't listen it's not my fault [04:13.63]I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost [04:16.32]Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth [04:18.44]While me and my peoples try to get out [04:20.88]The ghetto [04:25.44]The ghetto [04:35.20]End [06:44.78] 低音吉他 : Donny Hathaway [06:45.23] 鼓 : Morris Jennings [06:45.69] 贝斯 : Willie Weeks [06:46.14] 打击乐 : Ric Powell [06:46.60] 次中音萨克斯风 : Johnny Board/Lenard S. Druss [06:47.05] 小号 : Gary Slavo/John E. Howell/Oscar Brashear/Robert A. Lewis [06:47.50] 吉他 : Philip Upchurch [06:47.96] 长号 : John Avant/Morris Ellis [06:48.41] 大号 : Aaron Dodd [06:48.87] 电钢琴 : Donny Hathaway [06:49.32] 人声 : Donny Hathaway