Ghetto Child - The Spinners

When I was seventeen

I ran away from home

And from everything

I had ever known

I was sick and tired

Living in a town

Filled with narrow minds

And hate

They used to laugh at me

The children called me names

I would ran and hide

Feelin' so ashamed

Just for being born

I was just a boy

Punished for a crime

That was not mine

Life ain’t so easy

When you’re a ghetto child

Oh baby, life ain’t so easy

When you’re a ghetto child

No one tried to understand

Papa did the best a man could do

A child reality

Is paid for by his folks

Fancy fairy tales

Are born and sold by those

Who can well afford

Time to make believe

Childhood dreams can still come true

Uh, huh- huh- huh

So I’ve been wandering

Traveling all around

Guess it ain’t my style

To live in just one town

Still I’ll never know

Why a child is blamed

Ridiculed and shamed

We’re all the same

Life ain’t so easy

When you’re a ghetto child

I’m a witness that life ain’t so easy

When you’re a ghetto child, yeah

Ooh, ooh, yeah

Life ain’t so easy

When you’re a ghetto child child

Oh, baby

Life ain’t so easy

Yeah, hey, hey

When you’re a ghetto child

Life can be rough

Life ain’t so easy

The going gets tough

When you’re a ghetto child

Yeah, but remember

Oh baby, life ain’t so easy

Things gotta change

When you’re a ghetto child

Things gotta change, gotta change, yeah, yeah!

Life ain’t so easy

When you’re a ghetto child

Whoa, oh, oh, whoa, I’m a ghetto boy