The Gospel

[00:04.70] I said we're all God's children, products of the ghetto
[00:13.08] Momma cooked the soup, daddy did the yelling
[00:15.66] Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon
[00:18.18] When he got pinched, he told them he wasn't tellin'
[00:20.74] Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook
[00:23.18] Cause every job he had they be payin' him off the books
[00:25.82] Ghetto University, knowledge is all it took
[00:28.45] In the tenement I was listenin' to the hook
[00:31.06] Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cooke
[00:33.51] When the Feds coming, everybody be shook
[00:36.15] Now we doing life like Eddie Murphy and Martin
[00:38.75] On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin
[00:41.13] The roaches and the rats, heroin and the crasp
[00:43.78] Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
[00:46.44] Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
[00:48.79] Everybody got a path but you could never go back
[00:51.22] Oh, oh, oh, oh
[00:56.34] Oh, oh, oh, oh
[01:01.48] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[01:03.95] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[01:06.53] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[01:09.03] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[01:11.78] I'm telling you like it is, how we ever gon' live?
[01:14.46] If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?
[01:17.06] It's a revolving door, when brothers be doing bids
[01:19.67] I know it sound wrong but the dope'll be what it is
[01:22.12] Survival of the fittest, this poor girl the illest
[01:25.21] Broke mirrors and black cats give me heebie-geebies
[01:27.51] Life seems hard, nothing ever comes easy
[01:29.94] Whatever's in the dark, won't always become the light
[01:32.46] If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
[01:35.12] Gotta speak the truth when I'm up in the booth
[01:37.52] The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof
[01:40.13] Poverty is a pain like you pulling a tooth
[01:42.51] Told the streets don't let me go like I'm bishop and juice
[01:45.37] The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
[01:48.02] Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
[01:50.43] Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
[01:52.83] Everybody got a path but you could never go back
[01:55.48] Oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:00.55] Oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:05.59] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:06.84] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:08.89] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:10.67] Sing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:12.28] Oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:12.38] Oh, oh, oh, oh
[02:12.41] (Sing)
[02:12.53] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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[02:15.47] (Sing)
[02:15.56] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:16.51] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[02:17.14] (Gotta sing)
[02:17.22] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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[02:20.41] (She's a king)
[02:22.35] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)
[02:24.49] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)
[02:30.03] And they sing New York City
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