When I was seventeen
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I ran away from home
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And from everything
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I had ever known
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I was sick and tired
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Living in a town
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Filled with narrow minds
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And hate
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They used to laugh at me
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The children called me names
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I would ran and hide
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Feelin' so ashamed
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Just for being born
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I was just a boy
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Punished for a crime
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That was not mine
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Life ain't so easy
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When you're a ghetto child
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Oh baby, life ain't so easy
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When you're a ghetto child
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No one tried to understand
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Papa did the best a man could do
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A child reality
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Is paid for by his folks
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Fancy fairy tales
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Are born and sold by those
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Who can well afford
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Time to make believe
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Childhood dreams can still come true
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Uh, huh- huh- huh
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So I've been wandering
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Traveling all around
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Guess it ain't my style
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To live in just one town
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Still I'll never know
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Why a child is blamed
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Ridiculed and shamed
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We're all the same
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Life ain't so easy
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When you're a ghetto child
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I'm a witness that life ain't so easy
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When you're a ghetto child, yeah
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Ooh, ooh, yeah
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Life ain't so easy
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When you're a ghetto child child
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Oh, baby
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Life ain't so easy
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Yeah, hey, hey
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When you're a ghetto child
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Life can be rough
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Life ain't so easy
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The going gets tough
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When you're a ghetto child
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Yeah, but remember
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Oh baby, life ain't so easy
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Things gotta change
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When you're a ghetto child
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Things gotta change, gotta change, yeah, yeah!
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Life ain't so easy
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When you're a ghetto child
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Whoa, oh, oh, whoa,I'm a ghetto boy
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Ghetto Child
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| The Spinners |
