[Chorus: Joan Davis]
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Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto
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Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh
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[GZA]
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Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day
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Adolescence workin for small pay
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World so little, he could never leave his block
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His home full of riddle, so he always need his glock
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He coast with his eye open, keep his metal smokin
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Young wasted minds, fiendin on dimes, cokin
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Forgot kids quick to break rules, and known to make fools
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out of many, down the streets be more safe than school
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There's no diploma, that can break him from the coma
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A bloody war in the country, the youth hungry
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On the corner, hyenas amongst me
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Yabbin bout the stories, they be hearin, always swearin
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Can't even spell the shit that he be wearin
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Caught up in the silk web of material
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Superficial stains ya brain tissue, that's the issue
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The young is lost at their own cost, dreamin
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Screamin how we never hold positions, that's the meanin
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Brothers of murder victims share the same grief
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The elderly shake their head in disbelief
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and no relief came till I aimed
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and blast one shot and left my name
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The GZA... *echos*
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[Chorus]
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[Njeri]
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My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks
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on torn down blocks, drug spots set out their shops
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and cops watch, innocent niggaz roam in flocks
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Romanism in tops, papers and knots
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Churches and liquor stores on every corner, plot to get money not
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some funny niggaz act like they could pop glocks and those who can't cop
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Sisters givin up ass a lot, brothers givin up cash a lot
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They be strugglin to become someone because their parents not
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Just another victim of the ghetto, where lost minds settle
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When the devil uncivils society and die free
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With double 'W' followed by J-D around the necks
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and wrists the God is now a dog, the earth is called a bitch
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and all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness
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To push a lexus, ice on everythin from rings and braclets to the necklaces
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Children molested within these pest infested buildins
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Thieves uneducated in these schools, paint on the ceilins
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Peelin off, but all I see is lost black babies callin
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"Please somebody save me, please somebody save me"
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[Chorus x2]
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[Outro: Joan Davis]
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Just another... just another... victim of the ghetto
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Victim
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Genius/GZA |