Don't you know, that it's true
That for me, and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know, don't you know, that it's true
That for me, and for you
The world is a ghetto

...in the street, for the eyes
Looking at the sky, star be ...
Certain ball plays where we ...
Crying in the light, yeah, yeah...

Don't you know, that it's true
That for me, and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know, don't you know, that it's true
That for me, and for you
The world is a ghetto

As I watch the sky change colors
The rain flooded the neighborhood...the black brothers
The black mothers stressing the coroners that covered
Another statistic episodes of a cold summer
The street runners got the same legs of Michael Jonhson
The fast life surpasses life beyond the conscience
Profanity in the air, the ...used to ...
That black girl with the hair...
Her baby daddy's in court, she smoking on the Newport
17 with dreams of becoming a stripper...
The life that we living in, things we be do just to live in again...

Don't you know, that it's true
That for me, and for you
The world is a ghetto
Don't you know, don't you know, that it's true
That for me, and for you
The world is a ghetto X 2