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, (1)____________ was a felon
When he got pitched, he told them he wasn't tellin'
Auntie was a cook, her (2)______________ was a crook
Cause every job he had (3)________ be payin' him off the books
Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took
In a (4)________________ I was listenin' to the hook
Change gon' come, the (5)____________ of Sam Cook
When the feds comin', everybody get shook
Now we doin' life like Eddie Murphy and Martin
On the chain gang, I was (6)______________ (7)________ the coffin

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm just giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't (8)__________ it's at
Everybody got a (9)________ but you can never go back

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

Tellin' you like 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 (10)________ (11)________ be (12)________ it is
Survival of the fittest, this poor girl the illest
Broke parents and black (13)________ give me heebie-geebies
Life (14)__________ hard but nothin' ever (15)__________ easy
Whatever's in the dark, can (16)____________ become the light
If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
Gotta (17)__________ the (18)__________ when I'm up in the booth
The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof
Poverty is a pain like you pullin' a tooth
Told the (19)______________ don't let me go like I'm Bishop in Juice

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm (20)________ giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the (21)____________ ain't where it's at
Everybody got a (22)________ but you can never go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)

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