[00:00.000] 作詞 : Alicia Keys/Kaseem Dean/Corey Woods/Mark Batson/Shawn Martin/Robert Diggs/Jason Hunter
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Alicia Keys/Kaseem Dean/Corey Woods/Mark Batson/Shawn Martin/Robert Diggs/Jason Hunter
[00:10.16]So we all got children, products of the ghetto
[00:13.00]Momma cooked us soup, daddy did the yelling
[00:15.62]Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon
[00:18.14]When he got pitched, he told them he wasn't tellin'
[00:20.77]Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook
[00:23.20]Cause every job he had they be payin' him off the books
[00:25.84]Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took
[00:28.39]In a tenement I was listenin' to the hook
[00:31.40]Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cook
[00:33.53]When the feds comin', everybody get shook
[00:36.11]Now we doin' life like Eddie Murphy and Martin
[00:38.72]On the chain gang, i was singing into the coffin
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[00:41.23]The roaches and the rats, ****** and the cracks
[00:43.77]Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
[00:46.38]Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
[00:48.60]Everybody got a past but you can never go back
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[00:51.23]Oh, oh, oh, oh
[01:01.39]Sing
[01:01.78]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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[01:11.94]Tellin' you like it is, how we ever gon' live?
[01:14.49]If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?
[01:17.70]It's a revolving door, where brothers be doin' bids
[01:19.63]I know it sound wrong but the door will be what it is
[01:22.20]Survival of the fittest, this poor girl the illest
[01:25.13]Broke parents and black cats give me heebie-geebies
[01:27.45]Life seems hard but nothin' ever comes easy
[01:30.00]Whatever's in the dark, can always become the light
[01:32.46]If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
[01:35.70]Gotta speak the truth when I'm up in the booth
[01:37.63]The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof
[01:40.19]Poverty is a pain like you pullin' a tooth
[01:42.49]Told the streets don't let me go like I'm Bishop in Juice
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[01:45.37]The roaches and the rats, ****** and the cracks
[01:47.94]Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
[01:50.53]Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
[01:52.77]Everybody got a past but you can never go back
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[01:55.68]Oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:05.58]Sing
[02:05.92]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:15.52](Gotta sing)
[02:16.27]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:20.71](She's a king)
[02:21.43]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:30.08]Let me say New York city
[02:36.73]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah