You know I just got outta jail and everything 
and I'm trying to change my life for the better 
You know I got kids to feed but I got a question you know 
Where do I go from here? 

Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone 
Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone 

So many rainy days and gun sprays, I'm hearing AK's out my window 
Close my shades, let me blaze on this indo 
My situation getting sticky, life is green 
I mean I'm 19, and my momma is a dope fiend 
And I think about all the hard times we had 
No dad, no time shared, the buster never cared 
A little bastard child, going wild, 
Another victim of a broken home, my TRU friend was the chrome 
And if it wasn't for bad, I had no luck at all 
I represented my hood, I sprayed my name on the wall 
Fresh outta jail, and I'm here to see the sun rise another year 
But tell me where do we go from here 

Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone 
Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone 

The ghetto is hot, it's dark, and most of all it's a prison 
Most of my niggas serve life sentences, only the few is risen 
I made it out the hood but my people still there 
Some of them dead, strung out, up in they wheelchair 
I still care from a distance 
and I know that any day could lead me back to that crimey insistence 
I tell the kids be persistent, when they follow they dreams 
Ain't no telling what tomorrow brings 
Ain't no time to be wasting, you want to be a doctor or the patient? 
Hesitation can lead to expiration, only God can predict it, 
Where do we go from here, snorting powder, drinking beer 
Smokin' crack, killin' our peers, I shed tears 

Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone 
Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone 

Where do we go from here, after we all gone 
and where do we go after we ain't got no place to call home 
Hell I'm just glad to be breathing 
?? like I was the projects for a reason 
Shit, tell my niggas we gotta live, and some gotta give 
why'all gotta rise above this shit, and turn negatives into positive 
Yeah I struggled, but I'ma hustler, and that's self explanatory 
So if I die trying, the hood can just tell why'all my story 
Niggas seen killings and drug dealings, 
imagine we'd dream through it all 
Old ladies ?? through the window, I guess she done seen it all 
It's up to you, cause nobody seems to jam with us 
We struggled to long at the bottom, nowhere else to go but up 

Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone 
Tell me where do we go from here? 
Tell me why must I shed my tears? 
The ghetto is a jungle, but I call it home 
I gotta struggle to live, so leave me alone