They say we livin' in the worst place to be What you call Hell is home to me It's my life, I'm just tryin' to do what's right You see the potholes in the road Street lights broke out Three people found dead Up in the dopehouse If you ain't gettin' paid Must be smoked out Blades on the Escalade And you know they poke out What you know about Scared to death of goin' out Streets are quiet as a mouse Burglars breakin' in your house Homie, let Detroit live Let Detroit live Ya'll done took everything from us We ain't got no more to give This world is full of saints and sinners But Detroit city is full of winners Man it's cold like December Michael Jackson, you remember He was tryin' to put a amusement park downtown But some silly clown had to tell him no Why give out jobs in the ghetto Let 'em stay po' And ya'll wonder why we can't sco' They done jacked the city up Before Kwame a long time ago They say we livin' in the worst place to be What you call Hell is home to me It's my life, I'm just tryin' to do what's right They say we livin' in the worst place to be What you call Hell is home to me It's my life, I'm just tryin' to do what's right You see the Detroit public school system's terrible That make learning conditions unbearable Ever since the Young Boy put the crack in hand Got the neighborhoods lookin' like Pakistan What's happenin', what's the action plan Foreclose on your home for the taxes and You sittin' still, it's gettin' real Lot of people done split right up out of Hitsville Where did we go wrong, once we were strong I'm slippin' but I'm losin' my grip and I'm holdin' on Where's the Spirit of Detroit, it can't be gone We gonna make it through the storm Ya'll it won't be long They say we livin' in the worst place to be What you call Hell is home to me It's my life, I'm just tryin' to do what's right They say we livin' in the worst place to be What you call Hell is home to me It's my life, I'm just tryin' to do what's right Right now in Detroit, you going to have to say it Even to the casual observer, is on its death bed And the issue is what type of CPR can we administer Detroit to take it off the deathbed it's on now I mean you look at it...it's a, it's a broke city It's a city uh, that's saddled with corruption It's a city where the public school system, bar none is the worst in America And we've got a mess on our hands in Detroit