《Ghettos of the Mind》歌词

[00:00:00] Ghetto's Of The Mind (LP版) - Pete Rock/CL Smooth

[00:00:31] Ghetto of the Mind

[00:00:54] I catch a body at a party sort of herbal with the verbal

[00:00:56] Look above and see the vultures fly around in a circle

[00:00:59] Baggin' while you're lollygaggin' raggin' tow-taggin'

[00:01:01] Assassin with the millimeter roars of a dragon

[00:01:04] Here stood the black hood thirsty for the end

[00:01:07] And for the love of money kind of funny new friends

[00:01:10] Public housing a thousand in a tent

[00:01:13] So I'm forced to sell hell just to pay the rent

[00:01:15] Killing my own people I put 'em out of order

[00:01:17] Just like the liquor store scene on every corner

[00:01:20] I'm trying but the kids keep crying

[00:01:22] And the bullets keep flying

[00:01:23] Look a boy he's on the curb just dying

[00:01:25] Finally the cops come dumb to the slum

[00:01:28] Pull out a gun and arrest the wrong one

[00:01:30] Wax all the Puerto Ricans and blacks

[00:01:33] So they can never relax

[00:01:33] I dwell might as well learn the facts

[00:01:36] Pete Rock and C L can radio a shack up

[00:01:38] Sparking off and have 'em all calling for backup

[00:01:40] "Watch another crime and you're gonna do time"

[00:01:43] All this you'll find in the ghettos of the mind

[00:01:46] Ain't that something

[00:02:07] Listen to cats and rough rats war under the window

[00:02:08] When the ghetto forts flarey never was a Tom and Jerry

[00:02:11] Livin' ain't cheap my survival is deep

[00:02:14] In this part of town where the city never sleep

[00:02:16] A Barney Miller roller you can bet the car's stolen

[00:02:19] Or static with your BM only when you see them

[00:02:22] Speaking on your baby's mom a best for the drama

[00:02:24] Always trying to make a movie little stark-raving looney

[00:02:26] Stressing it but you know the ghetto keep ya busy

[00:02:29] A place that when I die it would never even miss me

[00:02:32] Crack phials in the aisles as one pimp smiles

[00:02:35] D**e piles working hookers by the miles

[00:02:37] But still my pop's got three jobs to stable

[00:02:39] A family household and food on the table

[00:02:42] So as we pray for all our souls to keep

[00:02:44] Somebody's on the project roof ready to leap

[00:02:47] I want to stop the pain or the bad situation

[00:02:50] But backwards wisdom I can't afford to give 'em

[00:02:52] Self savior is much braver with the conscious behavior

[00:02:55] Designed in the ghettos of the mind

[00:02:58] Ain't that somethin' C'mon

[00:03:20] It's like that y'all

[00:03:28] I could never look forward to an early retirement

[00:03:30] But still I maintain in a hostile environment

[00:03:33] Hustling the concrete jungle for loot

[00:03:36] My parents hated blood money so they gave me the boot

[00:03:38] Take a risk 'cause the peer pressure has the edge

[00:03:41] It was a blessing when I saw my life dangle on the ledge

[00:03:43] The streets coulda swallowed me whole

[00:03:45] But the pain was all gone

[00:03:47] When I got to see my healthy son born

[00:03:48] And now I bring him home to the ghetto

[00:03:51] Only to make a stronger fellow

[00:03:52] Maybe do some good for the neighborhood

[00:03:53] It's hard playing hero living less than a zero

[00:03:56] Raging Bull like DeNiro the modern day pharoah

[00:03:59] A concentration camp with the Section 8

[00:04:02] Welfare checks given at a monthly rate

[00:04:04] Apply for the get high or just plain lazy

[00:04:07] Many steady collect right around the fifth baby

[00:04:09] The hawk is out but the niggaz never pack it

[00:04:12] A hundred dollar sneakers with the skimpy-a** jacket

[00:04:14] When people are deaf dumb

[00:04:16] And blind they get left behind

[00:04:17] Imagine in the ghettos of the mind