If you can't save me, save our babies So many ghetto kids, my people cry
My people cry, my people cry, my people cry
Age eleven, looking out of a ghetto building Mom and five of us little ghetto children
I ain't never knew wrong from right Growing up off my life
Thinking Adidas had four stripes
Simone could try to warn us Told us never to do drugs
And yesterday I seen them on it
See in my hood, it ain't no love Age thirteen, see my auntie OD on drugs
The neighbor, ho, only fifteen, everybody wants the banger
Found her dead, gave herself abortion with her clothes hanger
I seen one of my neighbors try everything but couldn't make it
Came home one day, killed this whole family, I guess she couldn't take it
I give back, even if it ain't nothing big Look at my grandma, terminally diseased, only got months to live
They tell us we ain't gonna be nothing Gave my homie twenty-five years
I shed tears for all my peers
Dear God, can you save me? If you can't save me, save our babies
So many ghetto kids, my people cry You ain't supposed to question God, but I'm asking why
So many ghetto kids, my people cry
Throughout the years, my people shed ghetto tears
My people shed ghetto tears
Throughout the years
The ghetto's like a headache, one big old migraine
Tryin' to stay high till I die, tryin' to like hide the pain
My homie mama died, he didn't know
When she died, he commit suicide, my homie jumped up off the second floor
Maybe it's too late for me, since I'm here, I'm kinda glad to be
Been in and out of jail since I was twelve, life ain't half as what mama had me
I have to ask myself this simple question, why
It's so hard to live, but yet so easy to die, my homie
With this simple question, Lord, can you help me?
Just tryin' to live larger wealth is from these cards that you throw me
I used to ask my uncle's money, now they ask me
Life passed him up, I wonder what life has me
Cause see, it really ain't no love for us ghetto kids
For all the dirt that I did, I don't think I'll ever find what heaven is
I wonder why they won't panic and try to ban me
Probably cause they scared of me and just don't understand me
Dear God, can you save me?
If you can't save me, save our babies
So many ghetto kids, my people cry
Earth can't question God, but I'm askin' why
So many ghetto kids, my people cry
Throughout the years, my people shed ghetto tears
My people shed ghetto tears
Throughout the years, my people shed ghetto tears
How could you carry a kid for nine months black?
She had a baby boy, but while she was pregnant, she was smokin' crack
How could you rape and abuse your kids?
How could you come in incessant and say you love your kids?
They ain't ask to be here, they ain't ask to see here
Slipped here by 15 minutes of pleasure, that's why they can't see clear
From the cradle to the grave or from elementary to the penitentiary
Life is so hard, now mention me
Damn, dear God, can you save me?
If you can't save me, save our babies
So many ghetto kids, my people cry
Throughout the years, and I ask you why
My people shed ghetto tears
So many ghetto kids, my people cry
Damn, dear God, can you save me?
Throughout the years, my people shed ghetto tears