The Gospel

I said we're all God's children, products of the ghetto

Momma cooked the soup, daddy did the yelling

Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon

And when he got pinched, he told them he wasn't tellin'

Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook

'Cause every job he had, they be payin' him off the books

Ghetto University, knowledge is all it took

In the tenement, I was listenin' to the hook

Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cooke

And when the Feds coming, everybody be shook

Now we doing life like Eddie Murphy and Martin

On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks

Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts

I'm tryna hit the top 'cause the bottom ain't where it's at

Everybody got a path, but you can never go back

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm telling you like it is, how we ever gon' live?

If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?

It's a revolving door, when brothers be doing bids

I know it sound wrong but the dope'll be what it is

Survival of the fittest, this poor girl's the illest

Broke mirrors and black cats give me heebie-geebies

Life seems hard when nothing ever comes easy

Whatever's in the dark, won't always become the light

If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?

I gotta speak the truth when I'm up in the booth

The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof

Poverty is a pain like you pulling a tooth

Told the streets don't let me go like I'm Bishop in Juice

Roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks

Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts

I'm tryna hit the top 'cause the bottom ain't where it's at

Everybody got a path, but you can never go back

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

You gotta sing

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

She's a king

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

And they sing New York City

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

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