Ghetto Love lyrics

In my eyes, not enough trying to find love in the ghetto...

I don't understand why so many people always try to say the ghetto is so bad

You know what I'm saying?

It's not the ghetto that's bad, but it's the people that's

In the ghetto that make the ghetto bad

There's so many foundational lessons to be learned in the ghetto,

Even spiritual lessons

I guess it's best described like this...you know what I'm saying?

As a child, I despised and prayed to get away

Deprived of early riches, deceived by evil gang

Grew blind over the years, saw crime as escape

Participation of your innocence taken

Contemplated due to the situation

My time in your presence was limited by parental discretion of living standards

My Gladys - case was packing at night, to leave the pits in route to Douglas,

Georgia, on the midnight train

While the same circumstances made my people maintain, never complain

Sporting women gave our name ghetto fame

Sustained foundational lessons of life that I obtained

Though tribulations and trials came wisdom in everything

By the guidance on the Lord and his Spirit, through my Brahma

Believing in his provision when living

Deliver drama, still the saga continues in inner-cites 'cross the nation,

As hatred is created from residential placement

Everybody want to blame her, 'cause their pride ain't the same

As they was when the protested she was last in the game

See, the pain that she inflicts is lost respect of the past,

When it was rude to never speak or walk across other's grass

Hustle neighbours just to take out their trash, rake leaves,

Or washing cars instead of bawling for cash

Hurt the penal soul government, supplication's a curse put in reverse

Producing people who despise its worth

Since my birth, I been exposed to many cultures of Earth

But none have left impression like perfection of the ghetto

If you can understand what I'm saying there, you with me

Yo, Phoebe

In my eyes, not enough trying to find love in the ghetto...

I don't understand why so many people always try to say the ghetto is so bad

You know what I'm saying?

It's not the ghetto that's bad, but it's the people that's

In the ghetto that make the ghetto bad

There's so many foundational lessons to be learned in the ghetto,

Even spiritual lessons

I guess it's best described like this...you know what I'm saying?

I see beneath the grief as crime increase

My mind release sorrow on this in peace

Left behind for tomorrow like ancient Greek

I seek along the street filling with horror

Like a faucet, we leak

Some say we lost it in the street

The man above see the tragedy beneath the glow

Imagine me with no capacity for ghetto love idol

Rappily enforce for a better source throughout the south,

East, west, and the north

I suggest we come forth with Grits to rectify our crucial conflict

Connect the wire fulltime, it's mine to split

But don't forget: all through the terrorism, vandalism, there's wisdom

But all you hear is negatism and their criticism

If we reconstruct the mind of the blind, so let the untold unfold

Ghetto love in bold

See, a place I never let go is the ghetto that inherited

The R. Pope be scared of it, and don't know

And we can transfer from a blur, vision endure and make the right decision

Happiness will occur, we'll be a team at home in Douglas Ga.,

My ghetto love, my ghetto stay in my heart 'til my dying day

I pray ghetto love

In my eyes, not enough trying to find love in the ghetto...

• Artist:GRITS
• Album:Factors of the Seven (1998)