The Ghetto

I come from the (ghetto)
I come the (ghetto)
Where they're tryna keep you (in the ghetto)
I come from the (ghetto)
No politicians (in the ghetto)

High rent and low opportunities
Where the police are a plague on our communities
Leave us alone. Leave us alone
Why can't you give my people a bone by feeding and clothing them?
Nina Simone leaks out of the block
While I'm reading alone and the heating is gone so I've doubled my socks
And the TV is bruck
We traded in a bit of freedom for luck
And we didn't win a thing
And some people still wonder why the sinners sing
The old timers sit and rue their lives drinking gin
And I'm asked in every interview about some bling
But I haven't got a piece
I'm more concerned with the bailiffs who aren't granting me peace
Walk into my local shop and labelled a thief
And try to talk my clenched fist out of removing his teeth
The main word is perseverance
Consumption of expensive brands to keep up appearance
Cos across the road's a mansion owned by a man with a peerage
Who loves the royal family even more than Ed Sheeran
It's all bread and circuses
Don't call feds to report our disturbances
Ghetto