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[00:00.000]Ghetto Tears (Explicit) - Silkk The Shocker/Master p
[00:07.831]Dear God can ya save me
[00:09.800]If you can't save me save our babies
[00:12.758]I'm trying to keep it real
[00:14.036]So many ghetto tears my people cry
[00:17.163]My people cry life is hard and I see that every day
[00:22.141]Just so many ghetto tears
[00:23.550]In the ghetto
[00:25.040]Age 11 looking out of a ghetto building
[00:28.210]Mom and 5 of us little ghetto children
[00:31.229]I ain't never knew wrong from right
[00:33.637]Growing up off my life thinking adidas had 4 stripes
[00:37.475]So my uncle tried to warn us
[00:39.553]Told us not to do *** but yesterday I saw him on it
[00:43.671]See in my hood it ain't no love
[00:45.797]Age 13 seen my auntie O D on ***
[00:49.676]The neighborhood hoe only 15
[00:51.234]And everybody wants to bang her
[00:52.784]Found her dead gave herself
[00:54.063]And abortion with a clothes hanger
[00:55.651]I seen one of my neighbors try everything
[00:57.760]But couldn't make it
[00:58.728]Came home one day killed his whole family
[01:00.516]I guess he couldn't take it
[01:02.074]I give back even if it ain't nothing big
[01:04.902]Look at my grandma terminal disease
[01:06.731]Only got months to live
[01:08.311]They tell us we ain't gonna be nothing
[01:09.659]Gave my homie 25 years
[01:12.067]I shed tears for all my peers
[01:15.436]Dear God can ya save me
[01:17.506]If you can't save me save our babies
[01:21.265]So many ghetto tears my people cry
[01:23.623]You ain't supposed to question God
[01:25.311]But I'm asking why
[01:27.410]So many ghetto tears my people cry
[01:29.727]Through out the years my people shed ghetto tears
[01:33.996]My people shed ghetto tears through out the years
[01:38.925]The ghetto's like a headache one big ol migrane
[01:42.033]Trying to stay high till I die
[01:43.531]Trying to like hide the pain
[01:45.100]My homey Mama died and didn't know it
[01:47.439]When she died he committed suicide
[01:49.066]My homie jumped up off the sixth floor
[01:51.285]Maybe it's too late for me
[01:52.295]Since I'm still here I'm kinda glad to be
[01:54.232]Been in and out of jail since I was 12
[01:55.820]Life been hectic since Mama had me
[01:57.438]I have to ask myself the simple question why
[02:00.137]It's so hard to live but yet so easy to die
[02:03.795]With this simple question Lord can you help me
[02:06.152]Just trying to live large and wealthy
[02:07.511]From these card that you dealt me
[02:09.280]I used to ask but now they ask me
[02:11.978]Life passed em up I wonder will life pass me
[02:15.146]Cause it really ain't no love for us ghetto kids
[02:18.253]For all the dirt that I did
[02:19.671]I don't think I'll find where heaven is
[02:22.049]I wonder why they won't panic and try to ban it
[02:25.137]Probably cause they scared of it
[02:26.836]I just don't understand it um
[02:29.195]Dear God can ya save me
[02:31.174]If you can't save me save our babies
[02:34.312]So many ghetto tears my people cry
[02:37.072]You can't question God but I'm asking why
[02:41.319]So many ghetto tears my people cry
[02:43.647]Through out the years my people shed ghetto tears
[02:47.674]My people shed ghetto tears through out the years
[02:50.824]My people shed ghetto tears
[02:52.613]How could you carry a kid for 9 months black
[02:55.409]She had a baby boy
[02:56.659]But while she she was pregnant she was smoking crack
[02:58.747]How could you R**e and abouse your kids
[03:01.984]How could you committ i****t and say you love your kids
[03:05.022]They ain't ask to be here they ain't ask to see here
[03:08.032]Slipped here by 15 minutes of pleasure
[03:09.780]That's why they can't see clear
[03:11.099]From the cradle to the grave
[03:12.238]Or from the cemetary to the penatentary
[03:15.046]Life is so hard now bet ya leave it
[03:17.005]Then dear God can ya save me
[03:20.444]If you can't save me save our babies
[03:24.332]So many ghetto tears my people cry
[03:28.141]And I'm asking why
[03:30.828]My people shed ghetto tears
[03:32.608]So many ghetto tears my people cry
[03:37.158]So many ghetto tears
[03:38.958]Through out the years my people shed ghetto tears