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[00:15.45]Carry on Ghetto Woman
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[00:19.92]I see you working night to morning light yet no one cares
[00:23.04]
[00:23.97]Carry on Ghetto Woman
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[00:27.78]Cause even though they laugh and
[00:29.53]talk about the clothes you wear
[00:31.22]I wish they could just realize
[00:34.70]
[00:35.95]That all you’ve ever needed was someone to free your mind
[00:39.51]Carry on Ghetto Woman
[00:42.07]
[00:44.26]Cause even in your darkest hours I still see your light
[00:46.94]
[00:47.63]And when you cry don’t you know
[00:50.63]that I am crying with you?
[00:51.81]
[00:54.80]When people put you down, yeah way down and you feel
[00:59.24]like you’re alone
[01:00.17]
[01:02.85]Let love be your guide
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[01:05.35]You were built to last through any weather
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[01:10.86]Oh Ghetto Woman hold on to your dreams
[01:13.80]And all your great philosophies
[01:15.67]You’re the reason I believe in me, for real
[01:19.73]Carry on Ghetto Woman
[01:22.17]
[01:23.85]When you doubt if you’re a star,
[01:25.67]just know we still believe
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[01:27.37]Carry on Ghetto Woman
[01:29.93]
[01:31.67]Even when the news portrays you less than you could be
[01:35.11]I wish they could just realize
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[01:39.77]All you ever needed was someone to free your mind
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[01:43.66]Carry on Ghetto Woman
[01:46.10]
[01:47.91]You’re the 7th wonder reigning over us at night
[01:50.84]
[01:51.65]When you cry, don’t you know
[01:54.03]
[01:54.71]we're right there crying with you
[01:56.15]
[01:58.95]People put you down, yeah way down
[02:02.51]and you feel like you’re alone
[02:04.13]
[02:06.82]Let love be your guide
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[02:09.31]You were built to last through any weather
[02:11.88]
[02:14.86]Oh Ghetto Woman hold on to your dreams
[02:17.92]and all your great philosophies
[02:19.79]You’re the reason I believe in me, for real
[02:24.04]Some say this ghetto land will
[02:27.16]take you down and poison you
[02:28.40]
[02:32.14]Some say she can do all the things a man can do
[02:36.27]
[02:40.27]Who said the ghetto’s just a place
[02:42.14]where queens dance naked on the moon?
[02:43.78]
[02:48.15]We say a woman came to change
[02:50.16]the face of each and every room
[02:51.78]
[03:11.87]When I was just a baby
[03:12.98]my momma dropped out of school
[03:13.85]It was only second semester the baby due
[03:15.60]The doctor said “December the first your due date”
[03:17.67]The daddy he was gone off to college he couldn’t wait
[03:19.80]Only just a teen with dreams to be on TV
[03:21.72]And living with a mom and
[03:22.84]my grandma who used to feed me
[03:23.90]We would move around in the city place to place
[03:25.59]The landlord come for the rent face to face
[03:27.59]Her eyes too heavy from working nights as a janitor
[03:29.64]She’d keep it to herself and nobody could understand her
[03:31.70]Even when she thought that she couldn’t she carried on
[03:33.78]She couldn’t imagine both of her daughters here all alone
[03:35.71]Before the tuxedos and black and white every day
[03:37.13]Used to watch my momma
[03:38.39]get down on her knees and pray
[03:39.82]She’s the reason that
[03:40.88]I’m even writing this song
[03:41.43]Ghetto Woman no it won’t be long. Now sing along
[03:43.81]Let it use you
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[03:45.42]Let it use you
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[03:47.35]When the love is strong
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[03:49.61]It won’t let you be alone
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[03:51.48]Let it use you
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[03:53.42]Just let the spirit lead you