When I was seventeen
I ran away from home
And from everything
I had ever known
I was sick and tired
Living in a town filled
with narrow minds and hate
They used to laugh at me
their children called me names
I would run and hide
Feeling so ashamed
Just for being born
I was just a child punished
for a crime that was not mine
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child
No-one tried to understand
Papa did the best
a man could do...
A childs reality
is paid for by his folks
Fancy fairytales
Are bought and sold by those
who can well afford
Time to make believe childhood
dreams can still come true, oh...
So I've been wandering
travelling all around
Guess it ain't my style
To live in just one town
Still I'll never know
Why a child is blamed
ridiculed and shamed
We're all the same
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child
Yeah.., ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah
Life ain't so easy when
you're a ghetto child
Gonna make it baby
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child
Life ain't so easy
when you're a ghetto child