Every Ghetto, Every City-Ms. Lauryn Hill

[ti:Every Ghetto, Every City] [ar:Lauryn Hill] [al:] [by:] [offset:0] [00:05.99]I was just a little girl [00:08.80]Skinny legs a press and curl [00:10.68]My mother always thought I'd be a star [00:16.24]But way before my record deal [00:18.43]The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill [00:20.87]Made sure that I'd never go too far [00:24.05] [00:25.80]Every ghetto every city and suburban place I've been [00:30.74]Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem [00:36.18]Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill [00:41.00]When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun [00:44.87]"Kill the guy" in Carter park [00:49.74]Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark [00:51.43]Watching kids show off the stolen ones [00:56.05]Every ghetto every city and suburban place I've been [01:00.99]Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem [01:05.37] [01:06.24]You know it's hot don't forget what you've got [01:10.36]Looking back [01:12.30]Looking back looking back looking back [01:16.67]You know it's hot don't forget what you've got [01:20.49]Looking back [01:23.12]Thinking back thinking back thinking back [01:26.86]A bag of Bontons twenty cents and a nickel [01:29.43]Springfield Ave had the best popsicles [01:31.55]Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu [01:35.05] [01:36.92]Main street roots tonic with the dreds [01:39.48]A beef patty and some coco bread [01:41.80]Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe [01:46.35]'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather [01:50.92]Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together [01:52.86]Looking at the crew we thought we'd all live forever [01:56.30]You know it's hot don't forget what you've got [02:00.99]Looking back [02:02.36]Thinking back thinking back thinking back [02:07.05]You know it's hot don't forget what you've got [02:11.17]Looking back [02:12.30]Thinking back thinking back thinking back [02:17.28]Drill teams on Munn street [02:19.65]Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef [02:22.41]Moving Records was on Central Ave [02:26.15] [02:27.41]I was there at dancing school [02:29.40]South Orange Ave at Borlin pool [02:32.03]Unaware of what we didn't have [02:34.47] [02:37.12]Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker [02:40.06]July 4th races off of Parker [02:42.37]Fireworks at Martin stadium [02:45.31] [02:49.89]The Untouchable P S P where all them crazy niggers be [02:52.83]And car thieves got away through Irvington [02:57.27] [02:57.90]Hillside brings beef with the cops [03:00.39]Self-Destruction record drops [03:02.15]And everybody's name was Muslim [03:06.83]Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state [03:11.96] [03:12.58]And everybody used to do the wop [03:15.65] [03:18.03]Jack Jack Jack ya body [03:20.23]Nah the Biz Mark used to amp up the party [03:23.16]I wish those days they didn't stop [03:27.60]Every ghetto every city and suburban place I've been [03:32.54]Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem [03:38.10]You know it's hot don't forget what you've got [03:42.04]Looking back [03:43.97]Welcome back welcome back welcome back [03:48.03]You know it's hot don't forget what you've got [03:52.22]Looking back [03:53.54]Thinking back thinking back thinking back [03:59.73]Thinking back thinking back thinking back