Album Name

Better Days

Artist

Joe

Genre

R&B/Soul

Release Date

2002.01.11

Release Agency

Jive

Joe - Ghetto Child
All the ghettos around the world
Dig this
Ghetto Fabulous Joe
Shaggy
All the children sing ,Uh
I'm a ghetto child
I'm a ghetto child (Check it, out)
There's a world out there that I wanna see
There's a man that I'm destined to be
I won't be stopped by the ghetto streets
I believe inside that I can't be beat
This life could be a ball and chain
If you let yourself get caught in the game
I had some friends who sold drugs for dough
But I don't intend to go down that road
Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations (No, no)
Just believe that a ghetto child
Can rise in the highest celebration (Oh)
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child
All the ghettos around the world, dig this
One day I'm gonna change the world
Make a better place for every boy and girl
Everyone in need, homeless families
Have a place to sleep and food to eat
I'll take every gun off the streets
So another tear won't be shed in grief
And every thug in every hood
I will make 'em change from bad to good
I believe that it can be done
Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations
Just believe that a ghetto child
Can rise in the highest celebration
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah, ooh)
Hey, yo', look at me inna different light
Spare me all about those stereotypes
Ain't no madness that'll bring me down
Gonna take this life and turn it around
Now see, the sky's the limit, I won't be denied
Ain't no stoppin' me, I'm a ghetto child
And at the end when it's said and done
We will all be singin' this ghetto song
I believe that it can be done (Yeah, oh)
Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations
Just believe that a ghetto child
Can rise in the highest celebration (Oh...oh...oh...)
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child (Let's go to church now)
Just because I'm a ghetto child (Uh)
I won't live down to your expectations (Take me to church now)
Just believe that a ghetto child (Ooh)
Can rise in the highest celebration (Hey, hey)
Know that I am a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah)
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child (Hey, ghetto child,whoa...oh...ooh...)
Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations (Sing a song for me)
Just believe that a ghetto child (Sing a song for me)
Can rise in the highest celebration
(Everybody sing it now, yeah)
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see (Ooh, yeah) the best in me, can you (Oh)
I'm a ghetto child (So I can see the best in me, can you)
It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be (Hey)