Lauryn Hill - Every Ghetto, Every City(1998)

[00:05.42] I was just a little girl
[00:07.21] Skinny legs, a press and curl
[00:09.03] My mother always thought I'd be a star
[00:15.49] But way before my record deal
[00:17.27] The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill
[00:19.86] Made sure that I'd never go too far
[00:24.44] Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
[00:29.91] Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem
[00:35.35] Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill
[00:39.80] When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun
[00:45.38] "Kill the guy" in Carter park
[00:48.06] Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark
[00:49.88] Watching kids show off the stolen ones
[00:54.44] Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
[00:59.88] Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem
[01:05.22] You know it's hard, don't forget what you've got
[01:09.86] Looking back
[01:12.56] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[01:15.22] You know it's hard, don't forget what you've got
[01:19.75] Looking back
[01:22.55] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[01:26.13] A bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel
[01:27.98] Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles
[01:30.64] Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu
[01:36.19] Main street roots tonic with the dreds
[01:37.92] A beef patty and some coco bread
[01:40.64] Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe
[01:45.18] 'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather
[01:47.85] Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together
[01:51.53] Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever
[01:56.03] You know it's hard, don't forget what you've got
[01:59.88] Looking back
[02:03.25] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[02:06.05] You know it's hard, don't forget what you've got
[02:10.57] Looking back
[02:12.32] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[02:15.91] Drill teams on Munn street
[02:18.71] Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef
[02:21.44] Moving Records was on Central Ave
[02:25.97] I was there at dancing school
[02:28.62] South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool
[02:31.42] Unaware of what we didn't have
[02:36.83] Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker
[02:38.62] July 4th races off of Parker
[02:41.37] Fireworks at Martin stadium
[02:46.82] The Untouchable P.S.P., where all them crazy niggers be
[02:49.53] And car thieves got away through Irvington
[02:56.73] Hillside brings beef with the cops
[02:58.58] Self-Destruction record drops
[03:01.35] And everybody's name was Muslim
[03:06.79] Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state
[03:11.24] And everybody used to do the wop
[03:17.69] Jack, Jack, Jack ya body
[03:19.47] Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party
[03:22.18] I wish those days, they didn't stop
[03:27.58] Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
[03:32.10] Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem
[03:36.63] You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
[03:41.17] Looking back
[03:43.96] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[03:47.56] You know it's hard, don't forget what you've got
[03:51.11] Looking back
[03:53.84] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[03:57.82] You know it's hard, don't forget what you've got
[04:01.47] Looking back
[04:03.92] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:08.65] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:13.58] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:18.94] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:23.69] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:28.75] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:32.86] Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:37.81] What you think about love? Come on
[04:38.48] Okay Lauryn, love?
[04:42.68] Yo, yo, he's about to give us a dissertation the way he said that
[04:50.30] Go ahead, break it down, break it down
[04:52.41] Well, love is just a feeling
[04:58.10] It's just when you like somebody
[05:01.02] You wanna fall in love with them
[05:02.10] Okay
[05:03.47] You just hope they feel the same way
[05:04.63] Like you do towards them
[05:06.23] True that
[05:09.06] Okay, okay
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