[Intro]

Ghetto, ghetto,

I've been praying for you

Hallelujah.

[Hook]

It is easy as 1, 2, 3,

I wanna be what's on tv,

And if that's wrong, please don't blame me,

Cause where I live we have nothing

In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.

In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.

[Verse 1]

Little kids growing up without no education,

Mom's on drugs, cause that's her only medication.

Nobody's home, but they ain't on a vacation,

But they left the kids alone watching the tv station.

What's wrong with the picture, please, someone give me the answers

They be wondering why the girls grow up to be dancers

Then we wonder why the boys grow up to be dealers

And they be angry at the whole world ready to kill us.

After we start to resolve the whole problems

How we let our little children destroying the goblin

Why we got them all killing and stealing and robbing

We need to plan a little seed to prevent the mobbing

Why don't we teach them that science to reach for the stars?

Cause they can beat the fire with the future worst than odds

Don't want them looking in the past and covering scars

They need a path out the ghetto, hello.

[Hook]

It is easy as 1, 2, 3,

I wanna be what's on tv,

And if that's wrong, please don't blame me,

Cause where I live we have nothing

In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.

In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.

[Verse 2]

Little boy had a dream of being a ball player

Cause little homie wanna grow to be a rhyme slayer,

Little missy wanna grow to be a model

While the momma at home just drinking out the bottle.

How come little one to grow and be a councilman?

Sitting in a governer, a mayor politicianman.

Probably cause the politicians keep tricking 'em

Promise that they fixing it but they ain't really fixing it.

That's why they want to be like me

Like giga like b and nicky and ree

Every day in the ghetto is an emergency

But the power that be don't emerge in see.

That's why you see killing, that's why you see crimes,

That's why you see homies in the prison doing time

That's why you see crack, that's why you see blackstrap

But no access out the ghetto, ghetto.

[Hook]

It is easy as 1, 2, 3,

I wanna be what's on tv,

And if that's wrong, please don't blame me,

Cause where I live we have nothing

In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.

In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.

[Outro]

Ghetto, ghetto,

I've been praying for you

Hallelujah.