HARD KNOCKS - Ghetto Love lyrics

rate me

You claim you're still bitter

but I got the raw end of the deal

[VERSE 1: Hardhead]

I heard the expression 'a dog is a man's best friend'

But I grew up thinkin it was a woman

But I had to learn the hard way

Never thought I'd see the day I'd be sleepin on the subway

But that's the path she chose

The next day I arose still kickin the same clothes

I had to make a decision

Even though I lost her my friends still gave me recognition

Bein recognized by the guys

Wasn't a surprise, you see, cause they're my homies

And with them I get nuff respect (nuff respect)

When I was down they were there

When I didn't have, they were more than happy to share

Inside I feel the pains trapped

I don't feel she dissed me but I feel I got a bum rap

The guys knew what I was thinkin of

The only thing to cure an old love was a new love

A ghetto love

[VERSE 2: Hardhead]

It's 3 o'clock, I'm hungry and I'm cold

I wanna call her but she's even changed area codes

Was it that bad, what I did?

To hell with it, I go to my man's crib

Oh, his name is Bezo

The type of power only friendship could bestow

I ring his bell and he's alarmed

And I'm greeted in with open arms

The next day, a different routine

I'm caught drinkin on a public scene

I'm callin my homies to come get me

Cause I know down they never let me

Free as a bird, once again I'm chillin

My homies ain't rich, but to me they're top-billin

Over, over again they've proven

Not even a jail cell can separate a real friend

It seems that our love as a crew gets better and better

We stick as a posse like a stamp to a letter

What's theirs is mines, what's mines is theirs

Cause in this ghetto love game we play fair

I'm unspoiled by success

Even though God's blessed they're still not impressed

The way they once treated me they still treat me

It's nothin different now cause I'm makin a little money

Like when we hang, rumbles still continue

Puttin heads out is still on our menu

We'll go to war in a heartbeat

And I never went to war and they ran out and left me

We're all about one for all and all for one

And if it's more than one you better have more than one gun

The only sleep that outlasts love is death

And we'll hang until one of us takes the last breath

How close can a clan of man be?

That one partner's pain is his posse's mysery?

We say they come a dime a dozen

But I've been turned on by my own so-called cousins

Is the blood we shed really thicker than water?

If it is, then maybe you oughta

Witness

A ghetto love

I'ma always have my homies

They gon' see me in the cold, or hunger

or just out there driftin, whatever

All my homies around the way in the South Bronx

Jason, Shawn, my man Jim-Jim, the whole posse

Those who I miss, you know who you are

[Name], Bezo, Lucky

The official crew, y'all know

The same crew that always goes through

the rain and the shine

Peace