Lauryn Hill - Every Ghetto, Every City Lyrics

I was just a little girl (little girl)
Skinny legs, a press and curl (press and curl)
My mother always thought I'd be a star
(My mother always thought I'd be a star)
But way before the record deal
The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill (uh-huh)
Made sure that I'd never go too far (a-what, what, yo)

Every ghetto, every city (uh)
And suburban place I been (you know)
Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem (uh, you know, uh-huh)

Story starts in Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill (Hootaville)
When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun (that's they was doing, what)
Kill the guy in Carter Park (uh)
Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark
Watching kids show off the stolen ones

Every ghetto (every ghetto), every city (every city)
And suburban place I been (suburban place I been)
Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem (a-what, yo)

You know it's hot (you know it's hot)
Don't forget what you got (you know it's hot)
Looking back (looking back)
Looking back, looking back, looking back
You know it's hot (ay, yo, yo, where you from?)
Don't forget what you got (ay, yo, bro, where you from?)
Looking back
Looking back, looking back, looking back

Bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel (well, that's a quarter)
Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles
Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu (wu-tuh, uh-uh)
Main Street roots tonic with the dreads (w'appen, dread?)
A beef patty and some coco bread (w'appen, star?)
Move the patch from my Lee's to the tongue of my shoe
'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather
Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick was together (Get Fresh Crew)
Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever, yeah

You know it's hot (you know it's hot)
Don't forget what you got (you know it's hot)
Looking back (looking back)
Looking back, looking back, looking back (uh, yo, where you from?)
(Ayo, where you, where you from?)
You know it's hot (uh)
Don't forget what you got (you know it's hot, you know it's hot)
Looking back
Looking back, looking back, looking back

Drill teams on Munn Street (one, two)
'Member when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef (yo)
Moving Records was on Central Ave.
I was there at dancing school (uh-huh, dancing school)
South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool (uh-huh)
Unaware of what we didn't have
Writing your friends' names on my jeans with a marker (man)
July 4th races off of Parker
Fireworks at Martin Stadium (oh, word, ma, look)
The Untouchable P.S.P. (P.S.pP)
Where all them crazy niggas be (niggas be)
And car thieves got away through Irvington (skrrt, lock it up, uh, uh)
Hillside brings beef with the cops
Self Destruction record drops
And everybody's name was Muslim (alaykum salam)
(Children playing, women producing)
Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state (uh, yo, uh-uh)
And everybody used to do the wop
(Wop it out, yo, wop it out, wop it out, yo, wop it out)
Jack ya, jack ya, jack ya body (jack, jack, jack)
Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party
I wish those days, they didn't stop
(I wish those days didn't stop)

Every ghetto (every ghetto), every city
And suburban place I been (and suburban place I been)
Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem (every ghetto, every city)

You know it's hot (you know it's hot)
Don't forget what you got (you know it's hot)
Looking back (yo, looking back)
Looking back (yo, man, where you from?)
Looking back, looking back
You know it's hot (you know it's hot)
Don't forget what you got (you know it's hot, you know it's hot)
Looking back (you know it's hot)
Looking back (ayo, J, where you from?)
Looking back, looking back

You know it's hot (you know it's hot)
Don't forget what you got (you know it's hot, you know it's hot)
Looking back (yo, yo)
Looking back, looking back, looking back (yo, ayo, where you, where you from?)
Looking back, looking back, looking back (you know it's hot, you know it's hot)
(Looking back, now)
Looking back, looking back, looking back (ayo, Gordon where you from?)
(Commissioner, where you from?) Yeah, look back
Looking back, looking back, looking back (looking back)
Looking back, looking back, looking back (looking back, looking back)
Looking back, looking back, looking back

What do you think about love? Come on (okay, Lawrence)
Love (ay, man, yo)
Yo, he's 'bout to give us a dissertation
The way he said that, go 'head
Break it down, break it down
Well, love is just a feeling
(Come on) it's when you like somebody
It's just when you like somebody (shh)
And you wanna fall in love with them (okay)
And you just hope they feel the same way like you do towards them
True that, okay, okay