The World is a Ghetto

Kids is what make me feel so good
See you looking at the glory that's coming
Up into the future of life
See the younger youth is what's gonna
Make everything to keep going
After I done passed down the hill
Young and black!

Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto don't you know
That it's true that for me
And for you the world is a ghetto

Then there's a lot of funky
Things in this country
And there's a lot of good things too
But there's more funky than good
We've changed some for the best
Awful lot of cases for the worst
And some, they have not changed at all

Walking down the street foggy eyes
Looking at the sky starry eyes
Searching for a place weary eyes
Crying in the night teary eyes

Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto don't you know
That it's true that for me
And for you the world is a ghetto

Dude, we got to get our minds together!
Anytime a brother was shot another
Brother in his own neighborhood
Then go to his funeral and
Turn over his own casket
They need to have the police down there
Cause see the niggas is NAACP
Niggas ain't actin' like colored people
If I can't work and make it
I steal and take it
They come up to me with a nigga who can
Put air in a bottle and sell it
He can do it man a nigga can sell anything

As I watch the sky change colors
The rain flooded the neighborhoods
Of the black brothers
The black mothers are stressing
The coroners have covered
Another statistic, episodes of a cold summer
The street runners got the same
Legs of Michael Johnson
The fast life surpassed life
Beyond the conscience profanity in the air
The children use the content
The vanity's in the air
That Louis bag: haunted
The black girl with the hair
That's kind of coarse
Her baby daddy's in court
She smoking on a Newport
Seventeen with dreams of becoming a stripper
Or becoming an AIDS victim
While touching them zippers
The life that we living in
Things we would do just to live again
How can an angel forever live in sin?

Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto don't you know
That it's true that for me
And for you the world is a ghetto
Don't you know that it's true
That for me and for you
The world is a ghetto don't you know
That it's true that for me
And for you the world is a ghetto

You know, anybody that uses somebody else
To gain is pimpin'
Well, I tell you what soul brother
Lookie here
Can't nobody pimp you but your pimp ass self
You understand? Then there's a lot of funky
Things in this country
And there's a lot of good things too
But there's more funky than good
Shit ain't gettin' better
We've changed some for the best
Awful lot of cases for the worst
And some, they have not changed at all