album: Spinners (1972)
album: The Very Best Of Spinners (1993)
album: The Best Of The Spinners (1978)
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When I was 17 
I ran away from home 
And from everything 
I had ever known 
I was sick and tired 
Living in a town 
Filled with narrow minds 
And hate 

They used to laugh at me 
And children called me names 
I would run and hide 
Feeling so ashamed 
Just for being born 
I was just a boy 
Punished for a crime 
That was not mine 

Chorus: 
Life ain’t so easy 
When you’re a ghetto child 
Life ain’t so easy 
When you’re a ghetto child 

Bridge: 
No one tried to understand 
Papa did the best a man 
Could do 

A child's reality 
Is paid for by his folks 
Fancy fairy tales 
Are bought and sold by those 
Who can well afford 
Time to make believe 
Childhood dreams 
Can still come true 

So I've been wandering 
Traveling all around 
Guess it ain’t my style 
To live in just one town 
Still I'll never know 
Why a child is blamed 
Ridiculed and shamed 
We're all the same 

Chorus 2X

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