Karaoké Ghetto Child The Spinners

When I was seventeen

I ran away from home and from everything

I had ever known

I was sick and tired

Livin' in a town filled with narrow minds and hate

They used to laugh at me

The children called me names

I would ran and hide

Feelin' so ashamed

Just for bein' born

I was just a boy punished for a crime that was not mine

Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

Oh baby life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

No one tried to understand

Papa did the best a man could do

A child reality is paid for by his folks

Fancy fairy tales are born and sold by those

Who can well afford time to make believe

Childhood dreams can still come true

Uh huh huh huh

So I've been wanderin'

Travelin' all around

Guess it ain't my style to live in just one town

Still I'll never know why a child is blamed

Ridiculed and shamed

We're all the same

Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

I'm a witness that life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

Yeah

Ooh ooh hoo

Yeah

Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

Oh baby life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

Life ain't so easy

Yeah heh heh heh

Life can be rough when you're a ghetto child

Life ain't so easy

The goin' gets tough when you're a ghetto child

Ah but remember

Things gotta change

Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

Things gotta change

Gotta change yeah yeah

Life ain't so easy when you're a ghetto child

Woah oh oh ooh wow ah ah

I'm a ghetto boy

Life ain't so easy