Since the day she was born she was often told she was beautiful
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Didn't understand why mommy told her,
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"No, take that ribbon out your hair that we can't afford."
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To make it as a star is all she waits for.
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A blanket in the car is all she call home.
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Don't wanna leave here anymore.
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By the time she was 12 years old, Pops got close, took all their dough
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Now baby gotta do the only thing she know
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Begging kids for the clothes they don't wear no more
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And everybody know so she can't be cool
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Rumors goin' 'round at school
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Ma, please don't make me go there anymore
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Who? said that a rose can't grow in the ghetto?
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Believe it or not, I promise the sun don't only shine in the meadows
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You do what you got til you got it and you're gone
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Cause oooh child things is going to get easier
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Oooh child things'll be brighter
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16 and she still a child
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She tryna be grown and she acting wild
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Body like a model and killer smile
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Getting love from dudes? the only why she knows how
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She's thinking to herself there's gotta be more than cutting on a Lexus floor
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Mama, don't guys fall in love anymore?
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She waking up dizzy at 3 and 4
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She's scared to tell her mom so she can't abort
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Everybody she done been with slams the door
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She's door low until the day it's born
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But she ain't gon cry for nothing that spilled(?)
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and ain't nobody love the way this kid will
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I got a rose of my own
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Who said? that a? rose can't grow in the ghetto?
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Believe it or not,? I promise the sun don't only shine in the meadows
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You do what you got til you got it and you're gone
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Cause oooh child things is going to get easier
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Oooh child things'll be brighter
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Rose In The Ghetto
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| Tynisha Keli |
