| They say we livin' in the worst place to be
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| What you call Hell is home to me
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| It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right
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| You see the potholes in the road
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| Street lights broke out
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| Three people found dead
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| Up in the dopehouse
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| If you ain’t gettin' paid
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| Must be smoked out
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| Blades on the Escalade
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| And you know they poke out
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| What you know about
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| Scared to death of goin' out
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| Streets are quiet as a mouse
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| Burglars breakin' in your house
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| Homie, let Detroit live
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| Let Detroit live
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| Ya’ll done took everything from us
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| We ain’t got no more to give
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| This world is full of saints and sinners
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| But Detroit city is full of winners
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| Man it’s cold like December
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| Michael Jackson, you remember
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| He was tryin' to put a amusement park downtown
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| But some silly clown had to tell him no
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| Why give out jobs in the ghetto
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| Let 'em stay po'
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| And ya’ll wonder why we can’t sco'
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| They done jacked the city up
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| Before Kwame a long time ago
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| (HOOK)
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| They say we livin' in the worst place to be
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| What you call Hell is home to me
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| It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right
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| They say we livin' in the worst place to be
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| What you call Hell is home to me
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| It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right
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| You see the Detroit public school system’s terrible
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| That make learning conditions unbearable
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| Ever since the Young Boy put the crack in hand
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| Got the neighborhoods lookin' like Pakistan
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| What’s happenin', what’s the action plan
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| Foreclose on your home for the taxes and
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| You sittin' still, it’s gettin' real
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| Lot of people done split right up out of Hitsville
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| Where did we go wrong, once we were strong
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| I’m slippin' but I’m losin' my grip and I’m holdin' on
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| Where’s the Spirit of Detroit, it can’t be gone
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| We gonna make it through the storm
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| Ya’ll it won’t be long
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| (HOOK)
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| They say we livin' in the worst place to be
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| What you call Hell is home to me
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| It’s my life, I’m just tryin' to do what’s right
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| (OUTRO)
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| Right now in Detroit, you going to have to say it
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| Even to the casual observer, is on its death bed
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| And the issue is what type of CPR can we administer Detroit to take it off the
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| deathbed it’s on now
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| I mean you look at it… it's a, it’s a broke city
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| It’s a city uh, that’s saddled with corruption
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| It’s a city where the public school system, bar none is the worst in America
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| And we’ve got a mess on our hands in Detroit |