good lord don t know the pain sometimes women don t understand what men be going through when a good man is looking right at you ain t this ghetto for you baby listen girl i m a son of pain i was born to this game at another age wishing i could turn the page at seven and four mama pulled a trigger and daddy couldn t figure how to stand arranged to say the least got the rage of a beast the pride of a warrior ain t afraid to come blazing for you sometimes i feel that my life is going up in smoke trying not to choke cause death it ain t no joke oh no no no no you see they came to sign on the but what they saying if they had to live it most would fear and then erase the track ain t got the heart to spin it you don t know the pain i feel you don t know what it took to blood sweat tears this ghetto rain can you feel my pain so tell me what do you know about your alarm clock ringing five thirty in the morning same old song you singing it s the hell of waking up when you just went to sleep you got to meet the man cause your job you re trying to keep but thirty percent of what you re making is already taken it s the time for a race but the boss keeps on faking oh girl it s the survival of the fittest ain t no rules to the spinners so get what you can take take what you can get counting on paper you ain t made yet oh no no no no you see life is a gamble are you willing to bet sometimes you win sometimes you lose the choice is yours to choose oh baby what will you do you don t know the pain i feel you don t know what it took to blood sweat tears this ghetto rain can you feel my pain can you feel my pain baby all i wanna know ain t this ghetto for you yeah yeah ain t this ghetto for you yeah hey ain t this ghetto for you yeah hey ain t this ghetto for you yeah hey good lord how can one country boy be so ghetto can you feel my pain baby take it or leave it girl feel my pain baby take your girl and step off you heard me 