Ghetto Chords by Akon

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[Gb] _ [Abm] _ These streets remind me of [Gb] Quicksand, [Abm] when you're on it.
You keep going [Gb] down, going down, [Ab] and there's no one to hold on to, [B] and there's no one to
roll you out.
You [Ab] keep on falling, [Db] falling, and [Abm] no one can [Ebm] hear you calling, so you're enough [Abm] self-destructive.
On the corner with the [D] coolie on the [G] way slide, just thought about the [D] thing to [Ab] escape time.
Deep dark summer back from the [Gb] K-9, dark memories of when there was [Abm] no sunshine.
Cause they said that [Gb] I would make it, I remember like [Abm] yesterday.
Holding on to what God gave me, cause that's the life when you're living in the [Ebm] ghetto.
[Abm] Can't leave you in the ghetto, you're sleeping in the ghetto.
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That's the [Abm] life when you're living in the ghetto, [Db] can't leave you in the ghetto, you're sleeping [Abm] in the ghetto. _ _
_ _ No need to cherish luxuries, cause everything come and [Bb] go.
Even the [Abm] life that you [Gb] have is borrowed, cause you're not promised [Abm] tomorrow.
So live your [Gb] life as if [Dbm] everyday's gonna be the last.
[Ab] [E] Cause you move forward, [Abm] can't go back, just pretend to remove your past.
Cause you gotta be willing to break, yes you gotta be, you gotta be, you better wait.
Yes you gotta be willing to break, cause you [Gb] gotta be, you gotta be, you better take.
[Ab] _ Whoever said that the [Gb] struggle would stop today, a lot of niggas [Abm] dead or locked away.
Teenage [Gb] women growing up with AIDS, cause that's the life [Ab] when you're [Ebm] living [Abm] in the ghetto.
Can't leave you in the ghetto, you're sleeping in the [Ebm] _ [B] ghetto.
[Gb] That's the life [Ab] when you're living in the ghetto, [Db] eating in the ghetto, sleeping in the ghetto.
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[Gb] [Db] Two [Abm] gunshots every night in the ghetto, [Dbm] sticky cops on [Gb] site in the ghetto, [Abm] everyday there's a fight in the [Db] ghetto.
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_ [Bbm] Rocking two [Db] keys in the ghetto, selling coke and [Gb] weed in the ghetto, everyday [Abm] somebody's cheating in the [Gb] ghetto. _ _
That's the life [Abm] when you're living in the ghetto, [Ebm] living by the [Dbm] ghetto, [Abm] eating [B] in the ghetto. _ _
[Ab] That's the life when you're living [Abm] in the ghetto, sleeping in the ghetto, eating in the [Ebm] _ ghetto.
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