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 (1)______________ was a crook
Cause every job he had they be payin' him off the books
Ghetto university, (2)__________________ is all it took
In a (3)________________ I was listenin' to the hook
Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cook
When the feds comin', everybody get shook
Now we doin' (4)________ (5)________ (6)__________ (7)____________ and Martin
On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm just (8)____________ the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
Everybody got a past but you can (9)__________ 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 (10)__________________ door, where brothers be doin' bids
I know it sound (11)__________ but the door (12)________ be (13)________ it is
Survival of the fittest, this poor girl the illest
Broke (14)______________ and (15)__________ cats give me heebie-geebies
Life (16)__________ hard but nothin' ever comes easy
Whatever's in the dark, can (17)____________ 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 like you pullin' a tooth
Told the streets don't let me go like I'm Bishop in Juice

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't (18)__________ me, I'm (19)________ (20)____________ 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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