Yo listen<br />
I met this girl on Baltic Ave.<br />
And you can tell how she steps on boardwalk,<br />
She was park place<br />
I asked what she was doing on this side of town<br />
She said she had some taxes to pay<br />
I figure I'd take a chance and advance to go<br />
And find out more about<br />
Cause there more to know than the way she ways<br />
And the way that she wears her clothes,<br />
Or the way she plays this game (so cold)<br />
She said she came up rough <br />
And one income was not enough<br />
There'd be nights she'd go to sleep hungry<br />
Cause her mom was always short on food and money<br />
See people used to joke a lot<br />
Tease her bout her clothes not being in style<br />
Dressed in dingy skirts and dirty sneakers<br />
From the finest second hand down Oriental Ave.<br />
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But now look at her<br />
She got this game on lock<br />
Anything she ever wanted now she got it<br />
And I've gotta say<br />
And I'm proud to see<br />
That someone like her is in central<br />
Womanopoly<br />
Once she graduated junior high she started working overtime<br />
Scrubbing floors or working on assembly lines<br />
Just so she could help her mother out and<br />
After college they moved into Marvin Gardens<br />
And she got a job working at the city water department<br />
To raise enough cash<br />
In move into community chest condos on Pennsylvania Ave<br />
She fell in love with this dude named ray<br />
Who was a small time hustler from St. Charles place<br />
And he was known for always bein in and out of trouble<br />
But the problem was that he was never on her level<br />
She argued with her mom about ray's work<br />
Til he was sent upstate on the same day that she gave birth<br />
But see the baby never made it, it drove her nearly crazy<br />
And she couldn't take it<br />
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(Listen) see where she came from<br />
Many people find it hard just to hang on<br />
You often find them in the same place complaining<br />
Instead of finding a better way of maintain<br />
She could have balled up and cry<br />
Wished that she would die<br />
And just gave up on tryin<br />
Instead she grind from the bottom<br />
Just to make it to the bottom now she's flying<br />
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