Ghetto Tears-Silkk The Shocker

[ti:Ghetto Tears] [ar:Silkk The Shocker] [al:Best Of Silkk The Shocker] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ghetto Tears - Silkk The Shocker [00:07.83]Dear God can ya save me [00:09.80]If you can't save me save our babies [00:12.75]I'm trying to keep it real [00:14.03]So many ghetto tears my people cry [00:17.16]My people cry life is hard and I see that every day [00:22.14]Just so many ghetto tears [00:23.55]In the ghetto [00:24.26] [00:25.04]Age 11 looking out of a ghetto building [00:28.21]Mom and 5 of us little ghetto children [00:31.22]I ain't never knew wrong from right [00:33.63]Growing up off my life thinking adidas had 4 stripes [00:37.47]So my uncle tried to warn us [00:39.55]Told us not to do drugs but yesterday I saw him on it [00:43.67]See in my hood it ain't no love [00:45.79]Age 13 seen my auntie O D on drugs [00:49.67]The neighborhood hoe only 15 [00:51.23]And everybody wants to bang her [00:52.78]Found her dead gave herself [00:54.06]And abortion with a clothes hanger [00:55.65]I seen one of my neighbors try everything [00:57.76]But couldn't make it [00:58.72]Came home one day killed his whole family [01:00.51]I guess he couldn't take it [01:02.07]I give back even if it ain't nothing big [01:04.90]Look at my grandma terminal disease [01:06.73]Only got months to live [01:08.31]They tell us we ain't gonna be nothing [01:09.65]Gave my homie 25 years [01:12.06]I shed tears for all my peers [01:13.76] [01:15.43]Dear God can ya save me [01:17.50]If you can't save me save our babies [01:20.27] [01:21.26]So many ghetto tears my people cry [01:23.62]You ain't supposed to question God [01:25.31]But I'm asking why [01:26.74] [01:27.41]So many ghetto tears my people cry [01:29.72]Through out the years my people shed ghetto tears [01:32.73] [01:33.99]My people shed ghetto tears through out the years [01:38.22] [01:38.92]The ghetto's like a headache one big ol migrane [01:42.03]Trying to stay high till I die [01:43.53]Trying to like hide the pain [01:45.10]My homey Mama died and didn't know it [01:47.43]When she died he committed suicide [01:49.06]My homie jumped up off the sixth floor [01:51.28]Maybe it's too late for me [01:52.29]Since I'm still here I'm kinda glad to be [01:54.23]Been in and out of jail since I was 12 [01:55.82]Life been hectic since Mama had me [01:57.43]I have to ask myself the simple question why [02:00.13]It's so hard to live but yet so easy to die [02:03.79]With this simple question Lord can you help me [02:06.15]Just trying to live large and wealthy [02:07.51]From these card that you dealt me [02:09.28]I used to ask but now they ask me [02:11.97]Life passed em up I wonder will life pass me [02:15.14]Cause it really ain't no love for us ghetto kids [02:18.25]For all the dirt that I did [02:19.67]I don't think I'll find where heaven is [02:22.04]I wonder why they won't panic and try to ban it [02:25.13]Probably cause they scared of it [02:26.83]I just don't understand it um [02:29.19]Dear God can ya save me [02:31.17]If you can't save me save our babies [02:34.31]So many ghetto tears my people cry [02:37.07]You can't question God but I'm asking why [02:40.44] [02:41.31]So many ghetto tears my people cry [02:43.64]Through out the years my people shed ghetto tears [02:46.51] [02:47.67]My people shed ghetto tears through out the years [02:50.82]My people shed ghetto tears [02:52.61]How could you carry a kid for 9 months black [02:55.40]She had a baby boy [02:56.65]But while she she was pregnant she was smoking crack [02:58.74]How could you rape and abouse your kids [03:01.44] [03:01.98]How could you committ incest and say you love your kids [03:05.02]They ain't ask to be here they ain't ask to see here [03:08.03]Slipped here by 15 minutes of pleasure [03:09.78]That's why they can't see clear [03:11.09]From the cradle to the grave [03:12.23]Or from the cemetary to the penatentary [03:15.04]Life is so hard now bet ya leave it [03:17.00]Then dear God can ya save me [03:20.44]If you can't save me save our babies [03:23.59] [03:24.33]So many ghetto tears my people cry [03:26.72] [03:28.14]And I'm asking why [03:29.72] [03:30.82]My people shed ghetto tears [03:32.60]So many ghetto tears my people cry [03:35.50] [03:37.15]So many ghetto tears [03:38.95]Through out the years my people shed ghetto tears