| Little ghetto boy | 
| Playing in the ghetto street | 
| What’cha gonna do when you grow up | 
| And have to face responsibility? | 
| Will you spend your days and nights in the pool room? | 
| Will you sell caps of madness to the neighborhood? | 
| Little ghetto boy | 
| You already know how rough life can be | 
| 'Cause you’ve seen so much pain and misery | 
| Little ghetto boy | 
| Your daddy was blown away | 
| He robbed that grocery store | 
| Don’t you know that was a sad, sad old day? | 
| All of your young life | 
| You’ve seen such a misery and pain | 
| The world is a cruel place | 
| And it ain’t gonna change | 
| You’re so young, you’ve got so far to go | 
| But I don’t think you’ll reach your goal | 
| Young man, hanging 'round the pool room door | 
| Look out, y’all… | 
| Little ghetto boy | 
| When, when, when you become a man | 
| You can make things change, hey hey | 
| If you just take a stand | 
| You gotta believe in yourself and in all you do | 
| You’ve gotta fight to make it better | 
| You’ll see how other people will start believing too | 
| My son, things will start to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better | 
| Everything has got to get better… |