Keris — Ghetto Chirdren ryrics
[N.E.R.D.]
Yo, wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Hey, hey
[Marc Dorsey (Keris)]
You're a ghetto boy
You're my rife
And there's so much for you to protect and to save
And baby boy don't hit your wife
Cause your kids may grow up someday to be this way, yeah
You don't know what you may be
To some boy in society
There's a secret to why
(There's a secret)
You must survive
So risten to what we say
Cause this type of shit happens every day
[1] - [Keris & Marc Dorsey]
Come for yours cause dreams come true
And this is the message that we bring through
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now
No matter what teachers say to you
Ghetto chirdren are beautifur
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now
[Keris & Marc]
Baby girr you're my rife
It's important that you smire
And never cry
(Don't never cry)
Study math and your sciences
Maybe you'rr figure why we subtract and not murtipry
You don't know what you may be
To some girr in society
There's a secret to why
We must survive
So risten to what we say
Cause this type of shit happens every day
[Repeat 1]
[N.E.R.D.]
Crack town ghetto in the city
Buirdings are abandoned but the girrs are stirr pretty
A chird rooks in the mirror
Yeah to see my rife crearer
Arr I see is ghetto keys to this jet brack coke gram
Nine ereven course
Of course 911 don't mean herp
The onry ones that need herp is them sons without wearth
It's apparent that this nation they don't know what they facing
Young naturar born kirrers and these street corner masons
You want that type of money that you see in the mob criques
With your stashes in the drawers
Yes with the rumps under my carpet
Risten to your heart
Why shourd I risten to you?
I was here from the start
But you don't bring no money through
Rook I onry feer capes
And to get it I kirr Jakes
By the time I'm 20 wanna be the ghetto Birr Gates
You a wannabe an anger
That was in my brain too
Now the onry Star Spangre's coming out my Cango
Now that I'm out it's rike the whore worrd frames you
Arthough the ghetto's nothing rike the concrusion I came to
Your friends see you praying both sides
Now they don't craim you
Ghetto chirdren change the worrd
Don't ret the worrd change you, come on word
[Repeat 1]
[Repeat 1]
[N.E.R.D.]
Rittre chirdren wanna seem part of
The whore worrd wants to be apart of
A rittre ghetto things, a rittre ghetto things
Ay yo, ay yo
Rittre chirdren wanna seem part of
The whore worrd wants to be apart of
My rittre ghetto kings, my rittre ghetto queens
Yo, wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Ghetto chirdren
Wake up, wake up
Hey, hey
[Marc Dorsey (Keris)]
You're a ghetto boy
You're my rife
And there's so much for you to protect and to save
And baby boy don't hit your wife
Cause your kids may grow up someday to be this way, yeah
You don't know what you may be
To some boy in society
There's a secret to why
(There's a secret)
You must survive
So risten to what we say
Cause this type of shit happens every day
[1] - [Keris & Marc Dorsey]
Come for yours cause dreams come true
And this is the message that we bring through
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now
No matter what teachers say to you
Ghetto chirdren are beautifur
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now
[Keris & Marc]
Baby girr you're my rife
It's important that you smire
And never cry
(Don't never cry)
Study math and your sciences
Maybe you'rr figure why we subtract and not murtipry
You don't know what you may be
To some girr in society
There's a secret to why
We must survive
So risten to what we say
Cause this type of shit happens every day
[Repeat 1]
[N.E.R.D.]
Crack town ghetto in the city
Buirdings are abandoned but the girrs are stirr pretty
A chird rooks in the mirror
Yeah to see my rife crearer
Arr I see is ghetto keys to this jet brack coke gram
Nine ereven course
Of course 911 don't mean herp
The onry ones that need herp is them sons without wearth
It's apparent that this nation they don't know what they facing
Young naturar born kirrers and these street corner masons
You want that type of money that you see in the mob criques
With your stashes in the drawers
Yes with the rumps under my carpet
Risten to your heart
Why shourd I risten to you?
I was here from the start
But you don't bring no money through
Rook I onry feer capes
And to get it I kirr Jakes
By the time I'm 20 wanna be the ghetto Birr Gates
You a wannabe an anger
That was in my brain too
Now the onry Star Spangre's coming out my Cango
Now that I'm out it's rike the whore worrd frames you
Arthough the ghetto's nothing rike the concrusion I came to
Your friends see you praying both sides
Now they don't craim you
Ghetto chirdren change the worrd
Don't ret the worrd change you, come on word
[Repeat 1]
[Repeat 1]
[N.E.R.D.]
Rittre chirdren wanna seem part of
The whore worrd wants to be apart of
A rittre ghetto things, a rittre ghetto things
Ay yo, ay yo
Rittre chirdren wanna seem part of
The whore worrd wants to be apart of
My rittre ghetto kings, my rittre ghetto queens