[00:02.469][Intro:]
[00:06.518]Always had big dreams
[00:11.298]Everybody had big dreams though
[00:16.288]I never wanna stay here, I had no intentions
[00:21.042]And I have had no plans
[00:22.113][Chorus:]
[00:24.673]Live my life,
[00:28.173]Gotta know how to survive
[00:30.211]Just can't hide
[00:33.894]'Cause these streets will eat you alive,
[00:35.462]ghetto burbs
[00:38.988]'Cause I'm from two different worlds,
[00:40.869]ghetto burbs
[00:44.343]Coming from these ghetto burbs.
[00:46.198][Verse 1:]
[00:46.590]Yo yo, ghetto burbs I'm from the ghetto with Jerz
[00:48.262]From where the pedal is served
[00:49.646]Use hand, justice for words
[00:51.004]Pick up the LA, they was ahead of the curb
[00:53.773]My hooey gang bang
[00:55.027]You could get left from the curb
[00:56.516]Yea I was raised here, but I'm tryna export
[00:59.129]Police is crook yea, the strippers is escorts
[01:01.819]Like my homey Layla, really I can't knock her
[01:04.562]'Cause she getting paper, month ago she was knocked up
[01:07.409]Baby daddy your **** boy, fresh homey was locked up
[01:10.126]But he on the same shit, ****ed around and got shot up
[01:12.634]You mind saying mind, I'm like why he even bother
[01:15.246]At the same time don't know what he was a part of
[01:18.015]And Layla over the casket, see this coming harder
[01:20.758]The hood went again, another summon the father
[01:23.501]Gotta take it astride, round here it's the usual
[01:26.296]But I ain't accustomed, that shit I can't get used to
[01:29.300]I'm tryna survive
[01:30.005][Chorus:]
[01:30.371]Live my life,
[01:33.323]Gotta know how to survive
[01:35.569]Just can't hide
[01:38.809]'Cause these streets will eat you alive,
[01:40.898]ghetto burbs
[01:44.242]'Cause I'm in two different worlds,
[01:46.358]ghetto burbs
[01:49.728]Coming from these ghetto burbs.
[01:51.530][Verse 2:]
[01:51.844]Yo, ghetto burbs I'm from the ghetto with Jerz
[01:53.803]From where the ghetto's disturbed, you can be dead and not heard
[01:56.493]Say you're predaly, and ended with better or worse
[01:59.236]I lost faith but grandma still keep her head up in church
[02:01.927]Murder is sky high, employment is real low
[02:04.591]Little kid tryna rap, but will he get a deal? No
[02:07.282]'Cause poverty kills slow, belief is beyond you
[02:10.051]7-9'er every 10 ******* here got the monster like my lil homey Tania
[02:14.152]I met her in freak nik, freak yea
[02:16.190]The same ***** the *****s be all out in the street with
[02:18.750]Open, in love with the service
[02:20.918]But she got resentment, she won't see from the surface
[02:23.478]So like so many women look right so she worship
[02:26.221]Caught aids from rape and thought her whole life was worthless
[02:28.911]Hoe couldn't know how gorgeous her curbs is
[02:31.680]She ****in em raw and hope they catch it on purpose
[02:34.580]You better survive
[02:35.442][Chorus:]
[02:35.886]Live my life,
[02:38.916]Gotta know how to survive
[02:40.876]Just can't hide
[02:44.245]The streets will eat you alive,
[02:47.772]ghetto burbs
[02:49.809]'Cause I'm from two different worlds
[02:52.918]ghetto burbs
[02:55.191]Coming from these ghetto burbs.
[02:57.254][Verse 3:]
[02:57.751]Ghetto burbs I'm from the ghetto with Jerz
[02:59.370]I ain't tryna act like my part of the ghetto's the worst
[03:01.982]*****s is *****s here, they'll buy stilettos for birds
[03:04.647]How did I get here? They act like the men who don't hurt
[03:07.468]Dude just getting high, guess they tryna escape it
[03:10.080]Won't commit suicide, assuming they couldn't take it
[03:12.588]The streets is cold, still we runnin round naked
[03:15.383]Success is avoid and we replace it with hatred
[03:18.152]That's your homey from way back, from showing the years oh
[03:20.869]The friends turnin green even that after we're old
[03:23.769]You thinking kid? No, values to sheer clothes
[03:26.459]Now you struggle for rent and he got ice in his ear lobes
[03:29.019]Your man won't even extend a hand, meeting all his career goals
[03:32.676]You need a whole nother plan, your career's broke
[03:35.471]Valuables are more valuable than everything, even value the dudes
[03:40.069]'Cause you gotta survive
[03:40.931][Chorus: x2]
[03:41.767]Live my life,
[03:44.353]Gotta know how to survive
[03:46.678]Just can't hide
[03:49.813]These streets will eat you alive,
[03:53.548]ghetto burbs
[03:55.298]'Cause I'm in two different worlds
[03:57.989]ghetto burbs
[04:00.732]Coming from these ghetto burbs.
[04:20.062][Outro:]
[04:30.616]I'm from the ghetto burbs
[04:41.431]Gotta know how to survive
[04:45.114]Streets eat you up
[04:52.010]Coming from the ghetto burbs
[04:57.809]Said the streets eat you alive, alive yea yea yea
[05:15.547]Coming from the ghetto burbs yea