dear God can ya save me
if you cant save me, save our babies
(we trying to keep it real, so many ghetto tears my people cry
life is hard and I see that every day, just so many ghetto tears
in the ghetto)
age 11 looking out of a ghetto building
mom and 5 of us little ghetto children
I aint never knew wrong from right
growing up off my life, thinking Adidas had 4 stripes
so my uncle tried to warn us
told us not to do drugs, but yesterday I saw him on it
see in my hood it aint no love
age 13, seen my auntie o.d. on drugs
the neighborhood hoe only 15 and everybody wants to bang her
found her dead, gave herself and abortion with a clothes hanger
I seen on of my neighbors try everything but couldnt make it
came home one day killed his whole family
I guess he couldnt take it
I give back, even if it aint nothing big
look at my grandma, terminal disease only got months to live
they tell us we aint gonna be nothin
gave my homie 25 years
I shed tears for all my peers
dear god can ya save me
if you cant save me, save our babies
so many ghetto tears my people cry
you aint supposed to question God but Im asking why
so many ghetto tears my people cry
through out the years, my people shed ghetto tears
my people shed ghetto tears, through out the years
the ghettos like a headache, one big ol migrane
tryin to stay high till I die
tryin to like hide the pain
my homey mama died and didnt know it
when she died he committed suicide
my homie jumped up off the sixth floor
maybe its too late for me
since Im still here, Im kinda glad to be
been in and out of jail since i was 12
life been hectic since mama had me
I have to ask myself the simple question why
its so hard to live but yet so easy to die
with this simple question Lord can you help me
just tryin to live large and wealthy
from these card that you dealt me
I used to ask ?, but now they ask me
life passed em up, I wonder will life pass me
cause it really aint no love for us ghetto kids
for all the dirt that I did
I dont think Ill find where heaven is
I wonder why they wont panic and try to ban it
probably cause they scared of it
I just dont understand it
how could you carry a kid for 9 months black
she had a baby boy
but while she she was pregnant she was smoking crack
how could you rape and abouse your kids
how could you committ incest and say you love your kids
they aint ask to be here, they aint ask to see here
slipped here by 15 minutes of pleasure
thats why they cant see clear
from the cradle to the grave
or from the cemetary to the penatentary
life is so hard now bet ya leave it
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