Tynisha Keli - Rose In The Ghetto lyrics

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Since the day she was born she was often told she was beautiful

Didn't understand why mommy told her,

"No, take that ribbon out your hair that we can't afford."

To make it as a star is all she waits for.

A blanket in the car is all she call home.

Don't wanna leave here anymore.

By the time she was 12 years old, Pops got close, took all their dough

Now baby gotta do the only thing she know

Begging kids for the clothes they don't wear no more

And everybody know so she can't be cool

Rumors goin' 'round at school

Ma, please don't make me go there anymore

Whoÿ said that a rose can't grow in the ghetto?

Believe it or not, I promise the sun don't only shine in the meadows

You do what you got til you got it and you're gone

Cause oooh child things is going to get easier

Oooh child things'll be brighter

16 and she still a child

She tryna be grown and she acting wild

Body like a model and killer smile

Getting love from dudesÿ the only why she knows how

She's thinking to herself there's gotta be more than cutting on a Lexus floor

Mama, don't guys fall in love anymore?

She waking up dizzy at 3 and 4

She's scared to tell her mom so she can't abort

Everybody she done been with slams the door

She's door low until the day it's born

But she ain't gon cry for nothing that spilled(?)

and ain't nobody love the way this kid will

I got a rose of my own

Who saidÿ that aÿ rose can't grow in the ghetto?

Believe it or not,ÿ I promise the sun don't only shine in the meadows

You do what you got til you got it and you're gone

Cause oooh child things is going to get easier

Oooh child things'll be brighter