In the Ghetto there was never any fucken window of hope
You either survived the bullshit
Or you were an unlucky bastard born addicted to dope
I cried many days
Looking outside of my blurry windows
Couldn\'t see clearly there were window bars protecting me
I was a hostage in my own home I thought
Until my window was shot out
I never questioned nothing but I felt something
I new I was a victim but we had nothing
I could see the rain come down
More clearly we had know window
I had know father around to protect me from
The people I was around
The Ghetto is a unforgiving place if you are brown
Light skinned or just not from that part of town
Too many drug addicted mutha fuckas
Too many hopeless mothers
Too many men that are Gay like my only brother
There is only one way out the Ghetto
You must be a bad mutha fucka to stay here in be humble
You must care enough to survive or die in the jungle
I was mentally prepared at in early age to survive a storm at sea
So growing up in the Ghetto never affected me
Even though I had no daddy around I had me
In my mother
I knew she was always there but did she care I couldn\'t swim
I use to watch other kids diving off the rim at the neighbor hood gym
I wanted to be like them but I was him
Traumatized
From the reoccurring dream I died swimming
As I looked from the outside of the fence trembling with fear
Wanting to be like other kids if only I had a dad whom taught me to swim
I would probably swim with the fish if I knew how to fish
I grew up in the Ghetto you did your best
I day dreamed a lot hoping one day I would be rich enough
To help other people that wasn\'t
All of this was a dream of course have to think logically right
The only thing that is real is my visions
I could never see life any other way then how I was raised to
I see children every day playing
Smiling, laughing, crying
Home is home to many of them like it was for me
I was born in the Ghetto but the Ghetto is not whom I be
I survived my whole life free
I don\'t owe or am I do in explanation
Each of us deserve to be happy
We all have had some type of disappointments in our lives
But we were born free first
I was born in the Ghetto but the Ghetto is not whom I beeeee