[ti:Ghetto Child] [ar:Spinners] [al:The Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ghetto Child - The Spinners [00:19.77]When I was 17 I ran away from home [00:24.32]And from everything I had ever known [00:28.82]I was sick and tired living in a town [00:33.26]Filled with narrow minds and hate [00:39.18]They used to laugh at me and [00:41.93]Children called me names [00:43.70]I would run and hide feeling so ashamed [00:48.18]Just for being born I was just a boy [00:52.70]Punished for a crime that was not mine [00:58.83]Life ain't so easy [01:01.58]When you're a ghetto child [01:07.13]Life ain't so easy [01:09.77]When you're a ghetto child [01:16.21]No one tried to understand [01:20.14]Papa did the best a man could do [01:32.52]A child's reality is paid for by his folks [01:37.04]Fancy fairy tales are bought and sold by those [01:41.65]Who can well afford time to make believe [01:45.69]Childhood dreams can still come true [01:51.60]So I've been wandering traveling all around [01:56.08]Guess it ain't my style to live in just one town [02:00.65]Still I'll never know why a child is blamed [02:04.84]Ridiculed and shamed we're all the same [02:11.84]Life ain't so easy [02:14.02]When you're a ghetto child [02:19.81]Life ain't so easy [02:22.10]When you're a ghetto child yeah [02:45.33]Ooh yeah life ain't so easy [02:56.66]When you're a ghetto child [03:01.61]Oh baby life ain't so easy [03:04.64]When you're a ghetto child [03:10.10]Life ain't so easy [03:13.03]When you're a ghetto child [03:18.39]Life ain't so easy [03:20.86]When you're a ghetto child [03:26.22]Life ain't so easy [03:29.04]When you're a ghetto child [03:34.02]Life ain't so easy [03:37.00]When you're a ghetto child [03:42.26]Life ain't so easy