The Gospel by Alicia Keys

So we all got children, products of the ghetto
Momma cooked us soup, daddy did the yelling
Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon
When he got pitched, he told them he wasn't tellin'
Auntie was a cook, her husband was a crook
Cause every job he had they be payin' him off the books
Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took
In a tenement I was listenin' to the hook
Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cook
When the feds comin', everybody get shook
Now we doin' life like (1)__________ (2)____________ and Martin
On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin

The (3)______________ and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the (4)____________ ain't where it's at
Everybody got a past but you can (5)__________ go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)...

Tellin' you (6)________ it is, how we ever gon' live?
If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?
It's a revolving door, where brothers be doin' bids
I know it sound wrong but the door will be what it is
Survival of the fittest, this poor girl the illest
Broke parents and black cats give me heebie-geebies
Life seems hard but nothin' ever comes easy
Whatever's in the dark, can always become the light
If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
Gotta speak the truth when I'm up in the booth
The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof
Poverty is a pain (7)________ you pullin' a tooth
Told the streets don't let me go (8)________ I'm (9)____________ in Juice

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't (10)__________ me, I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
Everybody got a past but you can never go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)

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