As the Snow Flies Cause if there's one thing she don't need It's another hungry hound to feed in the ghetto People, don't you understand Your child needs an alien He'll grow to be an angry young man someday Take a look at you and me Are we too blind to see Do we simply turn our heads and look the other way Where the world turns You never stood in that man's shoes Or saw things through his eyes Or stood and watched with helpless hands While the heart inside you died So help your brother along the way No matter where he starts For the same God that made you Made him too These men with broken hearts And his mama cries And a hungry little boy with a runny nose Plays in the street as the cold wind blows in the ghetto And his hunger burns So he starts to roam the streets at night And he learns how to steal And he learns how to fight in the ghetto And then one night in desperation The young man breaks away He buys a gun, he steals a car He tries to run but he don't get far And his mama cries Seen my mama cry, I was real Her baby said enjoy it, she couldn't believe it Said my first ten thousand, thought I was dreaming Said they was silent, it got hard, they was leaving You won't believe what I done did You won't believe what I done seen Police get behind, I run They chase me, took one for the team I was born in the ghetto, raised in the ghetto I learned from the ghetto, all I know is the ghetto Born a cold and gray Chicago morning Another little baby child is born in the ghetto Born in the ghetto Yes, I was born in the ghetto And his mama cries Cries