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When I was seventeen |
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I ran away from home |
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And from everything |
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I had ever known |
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I was sick and tired |
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Living in a town |
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Filled with narrow minds |
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And hate They used to laugh at me |
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The children called me names |
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I would ran and hide |
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Feelin' so ashamed |
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Just for being born |
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I was just a boy |
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Punished for a crime |
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That was not mine |
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Life ain't so easy |
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When you're a ghetto child |
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Oh baby, life ain't so easy |
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When you're a ghetto child |
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No one tried to understand |
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Papa did the best a man could do |
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A child reality |
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Is paid for by his folks |
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Fancy fairy tales |
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Are born and sold by those |
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Who can well afford |
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Time to make believe |
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Childhood dreams can still come true |
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Uh, huh- huh- huh |
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So I've been wandering |
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Traveling all around |
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Guess it ain't my style |
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To live in just one town |
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Still I'll never know |
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Why a child is blamed |
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Ridiculed and shamed |
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We're all the same |
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Life ain't so easy |
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When you're a ghetto child |
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I'm a witness that life ain't so easy |
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When you're a ghetto child, yeah |
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Ooh, ooh, yeah |
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Life ain't so easy |
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When you're a ghetto child child |
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Oh, baby Life ain't so easy |
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Yeah, hey, hey |
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When you're a ghetto child |
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Life can be rough |
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Life ain't so easy |
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The going gets tough |
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When you're a ghetto child |
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Yeah, but remember |
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Oh baby, life ain't so easy |
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Things gotta change |
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When you're a ghetto child |
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Things gotta change, gotta change, yeah, yeah! |
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Life ain't so easy |
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When you're a ghetto child |
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Whoa, oh, oh, whoa, |
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I'm a ghetto boy |