dear God can ya save me 

if you can't 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 ain't 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 ain't 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 couldn't make it 

came home one day killed his whole family 

I guess he couldn't take it 

I give back, even if it ain't nothing big 

look at my grandma, terminal disease only got months to live 

they tell us we ain't gonna be nothin 

gave my homie 25 years 

I shed tears for all my peers 



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dear god can ya save me 

if you can't save me, save our babies 

so many ghetto tears my people cry 

you ain't supposed to question God but I'm 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 ghetto's 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 didn't know it 

when she died he committed suicide 

my homie jumped up off the sixth floor 

maybe it's too late for me 

since I'm still here, I'm 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 

it's 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 ain't no love for us ghetto kids 

for all the dirt that I did 

I don't think I'll find where heaven is 

I wonder why they won't panic and try to ban it 

probably cause they scared of it 

I just dont understand it 



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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 ain't ask to be here, they ain't ask to see here 

slipped here by 15 minutes of pleasure 

that's why they can't 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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