Every Ghetto, Every City
Lauryn Hill

I was just a little girl

Skinny legs, a press and curl

My mother always thought I'd be a star

But way before my record deal,

The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill

Made sure that I'd never go too far

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem

Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill

When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun

Kill the guy in Carter park

Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark

Watching kids show off the stolen ones

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem


You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back,

Looking back, looking back, looking back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back


A bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel

Springfield Ave. Had the best popsicles

Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu

Main street roots tonic with the dreds

A beef patty and some coco bread

Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe

'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather

Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together

Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever


You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back


Drill teams on Munn street

Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef

Moving Records was on Central Ave.

I was there at dancing school

South Orange Ave. At Borlin pool

Unaware of what we didn't have

Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker


July 4th races off of Parker

Fireworks at Martin stadium

The Untouchable P. S. P., where all them crazy niggers be

And car thieves got away through Irvington

Hillside brings beef with the cops

Self-Destruction record drops

And everybody's name was Muslim

Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state

And everybody used to do the wop

Jack, Jack, Jack ya body

Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party

I wish those days, they didn't stop

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem


You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back


Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

(To end)


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Lyrics by Lauryn Hill

  A Cradle In Bethlehem   Adam Lives In Theory   All My Time   All My Time [Mousse-T Too Hot/Bad Boy Radio Edit]   Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair   Black Rage   Black Rage (Ferguson Dedication)   Black Rage (sketch)   Can't Take My Eyes Of You   Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You   Can't Take My Eyes Off You   Can't Take My Eyes Off You (bonus Track)   Can\' Take My Eyes Off You   Can\'t Take My Eyes Off Of You   Can\'t Take My Eyes Off You   CAN\'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU Album \'The Miseduca...   Can\'t Take My Eyes Off You (bonus Track)   Can't Take My Eyes Off You   Cant Take My Eyes Of You   Conformed To Love   Consumerism   Do You Like The Way   Doo Wop   Doo Wop (Poldoore Remix)   Doo Wop (That Thing)   Doo Wop (That Thing) [Acappella]   Doo Wop (That Thing) [Instrumental]   Doo Wop (That Thing) [Radio Edit]   Doo Wop That Thing   DOO WOP THAT THING Album \'The Miseducation Of L...   EVERY GHETTO EVERY CITY Album \'Lauryn Hill\'   Everything Is Averything   Everything is Everythin   Everything Is Everything   EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING Album \'The Miseducatio...   Everything Is Everything [Album Version]   Everything Is Everything [Instrumental]   EX FACTOR Album \'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hil...   Ex-Factor   Ex-Factor (A Simlpe Mix)   Ex-Factor (A Simple Mix)   Ex-Factor [A Simple Breakdown][*]   Ex-Factor [Album Version]   Ex-Factor [Instrumental]   Fearless Vampire Killer   Feeling Good   Final   Final Hour   Forgive Them Father   Freedom Time   Guantanamera   His Eye Is On The Sparrow   How We Ride in Dah South   I Find It Hard To Say   I Find It Hard to Say (Rebel)   I Get Out   I Gotta Find A Piece Of Mind   I Gotta Find Peace of Mind   I Had To Walk   I Just Want You Around   I Remember   I Remember (With U in My Life)   I Use To Love Him   I Used to Love Him   I Used To Love Him from cd liner   I Used To Love Him from liner notes   I Will Follow Him   In Harm's Way   In Harm\'s Way   In Harm's Way   Interlude 1   Interlude 2   Interlude 3   Interlude 4   Interlude 5   Interlude 7   Intro   Joyful, Joyful   Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee   Just Like Water   Just Want You Around   Keep It Tight   Killing Me Soft   Killing Me Softly   Little Boys   Little Drummer Boy   Lose Myself   Lost One   Lost Ones   Manifest/Ex Factor   Manifest\/Ex Factor   Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill   Motives And Thoughts   Mr. Intentional   Music   Mystery Of Iniquity   Neurotic Society   Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)   Nothing Even Matters   Oh Jerusalem   Oh Pretty Baby   One Two Shit   Peace Of Mind   Rebel \/ I Find It Hard To Say   Redemption Song   Repercussions   Retrospect for Life   Selah   Since I Found A New Love   So High [Cloud 9 Remix Instrumental][Instrumental]   So Much Things To Say   Social Drug   Social Drugs   Stand Tall   Superstar   Sweetest Thing   Sweetest Thing (Mahogany Mix)   Tell Him   That Thing   The Conquering Lion   The Little Drummer Boy   The Lost Ones   The Miseducation   The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill   The Mystery of Inequity   The Passion   The Rainbow Song   The Sweetest Thing   The Sweetest Thing [From Love Jones]   To Zion   To Zion (featuring Carlos Santana)   Too Good To Be True   Turn Your Lights Down Low   Turn Your Lights Down Low [Instrumental]   War In The Mind   War on the Mind   Water   When It Hurts So Bad   WHEN IT HURTS SO BAD Album \'The Miseducation Of...   World Is A Hustle   World Is Hustle   X Factor   Zion

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