Ghetto Woman

[00:15.34] Carry on ghetto woman
[00:19.84] I see you working night to morning light yet no one cares
[00:23.49] Carry on ghetto woman
[00:27.89] Cause even though they laugh and talk about the clothes
[00:30.65] You wear
[00:31.14] I wish they could just realize
[00:35.81] That all you've ever needed was someone to free your
[00:38.83] Mind
[00:39.36] Carry on ghetto woman
[00:43.85] Cause even in your darkest hours I still see your light
[00:47.15] And when you cry don't you know that I am crying with
[00:52.20] You
[00:54.76] When people put you down, yeah way down and you feel
[00:59.10] Like you're alone
[01:02.99] Let love be your guide
[01:05.46] You were built to last through any weather
[01:10.88] Oh ghetto woman hold on to your dreams
[01:13.97] And all your great philosophies
[01:15.62] You're the reason I believe in me, for real
[01:19.42] Carry on ghetto woman
[01:23.97] When you doubt if you're a star, just know we still believe
[01:27.36] Carry on ghetto woman
[01:32.04] Even when the news portrays you less than you could be
[01:35.16] I wish they could just realize
[01:40.01] All you ever needed was someone to free your mind
[01:43.36] Carry on ghetto woman
[01:48.08] You're the 7th wonder reigning over us at night
[01:51.36] When you cry, don't you know we're right there crying with
[01:56.25] You
[01:58.83] People put you down, yeah way down and you feel like
[02:03.44] You're alone
[02:06.80] Let love be your guide
[02:09.39] You were built to last through any weather
[02:14.84] Oh ghetto woman hold on to your dreams and all your
[02:18.40] Great philosophies
[02:19.63] You're the reason I believe in me, for real
[02:24.08] Some say this ghetto land will take you down and poison
[02:28.41] You
[02:32.06] Some say she can do all the things a man can do
[02:40.16] Who said the ghetto's just a place where queens dance
[02:42.96] Naked on the moon?
[02:48.02] We say a woman came to change the face of each and every room
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[03:11.95] When I was just a baby my momma dropped out of school
[03:14.03] It was only second semester the baby due
[03:15.72] The doctor said December the first your due date
[03:17.94] The daddy he was gone off to college he couldn't wait
[03:20.00] Only just a teen with dreams to be on TV
[03:21.90] And living with a mom and my grandma who used to feed
[03:23.71] We would move around in the city place to place
[03:25.82] The landlord come for the rent face to face
[03:27.93] Her eyes too heavy from working nights as a janitor
[03:29.99] She'd keep it to herself and nobody could understand her
[03:32.08] Even when she thought that she couldn't she carried on
[03:33.97] She couldn't imagine both of her daughters here all alone
[03:35.95] Before the tuxedos and black and white every day
[03:38.00] Used to watch my momma get down on her knees and
[03:39.53] Pray
[03:39.94] She's the reason that I'm even writing this song
[03:41.76] Ghetto woman no it won't be long. Now sing along
[03:43.89] Let it use you
[03:45.78] Let it use you
[03:47.60] When the love is strong
[03:49.59] It won't let you be alone
[03:51.66] Let it use you
[03:53.74] Just let the spirit lead you
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