LIFE IN THE STREET - ITAL JOE Hey yeah I know what you're thinking This is Janie Jackson type of singing But it ain't about that This is the real, the street life trauma And you know I grew up rough in the streets of Boston, Massachusetts lived real ruthless A wild kid out to get a bit Did some shit that he never should have did But he paid the price lived real .... Ruined his life and lived by the knife Had to learn the hard way but some day you gotta pay So what the hell you say Life in the streets isn't easy All I see is the inner misery I kneel there and pray for the future Strength and protection to survive in this society This is life in the streets And that's how we live it This is life in the streets This is the way we live our lives And that's how we live it Hard and mean at sixteen Living like a bean and a fiend I was seen before the Queen Quick to kill like you still I'll make your blood spill I cut your throat for your ghost down coke 'Cause it takes to show Kids with no go Ain't got no chance Got no where to go That's why life on the streets Is like a trial full of heat It will hacker with your head 'Till you're dead on the country Life in the streets is a mystery Don't know my friends from my enemies Often there could be trouble But I'll hold on tight and I will never never give up the fight This is life in the streets and that's how we live it This is how we live our life This is life in the streets Life on the streets, yeah And that's how we live it We're gonna live, we're gonna live our life This is life in the streets Life in the streets, yeah And that's how we live it This one is dedicated to all the poor black people This is life in the streets To every youth that's growing up on the streets you know And that's how we live it We're living for a dream one day This is life in the streets And there'll be no more homeless people in the world And that's how we live it This is how we live our life This is life in the streets And that's how we live it Life on the streets is not easy This is life in the streets And that's how we live it This is life in the street And that's how we live it.