[Intro]

Ghetto, ghetto

Ghetto, ghetto livin'

[Verse 1]

These streets remind me of quicksand

When you're on it, you'll keep goin' down

And there's no one to hold on to

And there's no one to pull you out

You keep on fallin', no one can hear you callin'

So you end up self-destructin'

On the corner with the toolie on the waist line

Just got up out the thing doin' state time

Teeth marks on my back from the K-9

Dark memories of when there was no sunshine

'Cause they said that I wouldn't make it

I remember like yesterday

Holdin' on to what God gave me

[Chorus]

'Cause that's the life when you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

And eatin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (Ghetto)

Ghetto (Ghetto-livin')

That's the life when you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

And eatin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (Ghetto, ghetto-livin')

Ghetto, ghetto, oh, oh

[Verse 2]

No need to cherish luxuries

'Cause everything come and go

Even the life that you have is borrowed

'Cause you're not promised tomorrow

So live your life as if everyday's gon' be your last

Once you've moved forward, can't go back

Just prepare to remove your past

'Cause you gotta be willin' to pray

Yes, there gotta be, there gotta be a better way, oh

Yes, you gotta be willin' to pray

'Cause there gotta be, there gotta be a better day

Whoever said that the struggle would stop today?

A lot of niggas dead or locked away

Teenage women growin' up with AIDS

[Chorus]

'Cause that's the life when you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (Ghetto)

Ghetto (Ghetto-livin')

That's the life when you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (Ghetto, ghetto-livin')

Ghetto, ghetto, oh, oh

[Bridge]

Gun shots every night in the (Ghetto)

Crooked cops on sight in the (Ghetto)

Everyday is a fight in the (Ghetto)

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh (Ghetto-livin')

Got kids to feed in the (Ghetto)

Sellin' coke and weed in the (Ghetto)

Everyday somebody bleed in the (Ghetto)

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh (Ghetto-livin')

[Chorus]

That's the life when you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, livin' by the (Ghetto)

Oh, eatin' in the (Ghetto)

Ghet-to (Ghetto-livin')

That's the life when you're livin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, sleepin' in the (Ghetto)

Oh, livin' in the (Ghetto, ghetto-livin')

Ghetto, ghetto, oh, oh