G.H.E.T.T.O.

Album: single release only (2017)
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    Ghetto is a state of mind
    Ghetto is a place you’ll find
    Doesn’t matter who you are
    Only thing that matters is where you end up
    Ghetto is a state of mind
    Ghetto is place inside
    Doesn’t matter where you’re from
    Only thing that matters is where you end up

    A child is born, tenement slum
    He may be poor, but never was dumb
    He’s clothes are worn, his shoes and feet
    Are shined and clean but nothing to eat
    He grew a man head held high
    He wrote a book and won the Nobel prize
    Where you are does not depend on
    Where you’re going or where you’ve been
    ‘cause

    A baby’s born high on the hill
    With a silver spoon and a free will
    Plant the garden and sow the seeds
    There’ll be flowers but there will be weeds
    Grew a man head held bent
    Broke the law and away he went
    Where you are does not depend on
    Where you’re going or where you’ve been
    ‘cause

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    La la la la, la la la la la

    Broken glass, children smokin’ fast
    A ghetto education don’t mean
    There’s no class we know fast what life is
    Gang ways could be the paths to righteousness
    A blackbird flew from where we come from
    She was always told she
    Wasn’t gon’ be nothin’
    Now we hug her like the shero that she is
    Now she bring dreams back to impact the kids
    In the ghetto there’s poverty
    But ain’t no stoppin’ me
    We gon’ keep building ‘cause
    We are God’s property
    Greatness even though there’s oppression
    The beauty of the ghetto’s the essence
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    La la la la, la la la la la

    Webster’s defines the word "ghetto" as the
    Poorest part of any city in
    Which a particular group lives, with limited
    Opportunity a crowded urban district
    Confined by poverty or prejudice
    To me GHETTO stands
    For "Greatness Happens Even
    Though There’s Oppression"

    Greatness even though there’s oppression
    The beauty of the ghetto’s the essence
    Greatness even though there’s oppression
    The beauty of the ghetto’s the essence
    Greatness even though there’s oppression
    The beauty of the ghetto’s the essence Publisher: REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
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