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Composer: Donny Hathaway, Al Eaton, Leroy Hutson, Todd Shaw

Too Short - The Ghetto lyrics



Talking bout the ghetto...funky funky ghetto
Trying to survive, trying to stay alive

Chorus:

The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)

Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same
And it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
If he played me close and tried to test my cool
Every day I wonder just how I'll die
Only thing I know is how to survive
There's only one rule in the real world
And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
Black man tried to break into my house again
Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
Even though my brothers do me just like that
I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the...

Chorus

So just peep the game and don't call it crap
Cause to me, life is one hard rap
Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
600 million on a footbal team
And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
The story I tell is so incomplete
Five kids in the house and no food to eat
Don't look at me and don't ask me why
Mama's next door getting high
Even though she's got five mouths to feed
She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
I always tell the truth about things like this
I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
Instead of adding to the task force send some help
Waiting on him I'd better help myself
Housing Authority and the O.P.D
Songs list of album: Short Dog's in the House (1990)
         Title Rating
01   Short Dog's in the House lyrics   -
02   It's Your Life lyrics   -
03   The Ghetto lyrics   -
04   Short But Funky lyrics   -
05   In the Oaktown lyrics   -
06   Dead or Alive lyrics   -
07   Punk Bitch lyrics   -
08   Ain't Nothin' But a Word to Me lyrics   -
09   Hard on the Boulevard lyrics   -
10   Pimpology lyrics   -
11   Paula & Janet lyrics   -
12   Rap Like Me lyrics   -
13    The Ghetto (Reprise) lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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