(Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood)      [Intro - Chingy]:   Uh huh, yeah   Uh, yeah, yeah this your boy chingaling man   Need to talk to the world real quick, talk to em man   You know we got a lot of problems going on in the inner city, in the ghetto, in the hood   They ain't hearin you, ain't nobody touchin on   Democrats, Republicans, all those folks   You know they don't care what's going on in the ghetto anyway      [Verse 1 - Chingy]:    Errday I wake up with a regular mentality   But I'm a target on the street and that's just reality   Cats in the ghetto ain't never had a high salary   Except makin deals and selling blow in the alley   See the system was made for us to fail,    Look at the jails   Overpopulated with Mexicans and young black males   I ain't tellin the tale, so we choose heaven or hell   Don't care about letters from school, we'd rather get street mail   I been a witness to some murders, snitchin I do without it   But then I wonder why the damn police don't do nothing about it   Go to the unemployment office, hell yeah it's crowded   Our hoods takin wrong turns now it's time to reroute it   I know a lil dude, 13, carry a burner   Dropped out of school teacher, said he wasn't a fast learner   Sometimes I wonder in 20 years I wonder where we gon be   When I say we, I mean my black community, ya digg       [Chorus - Anthony Hamilton]:   They don't know, how it feels to hurt so long   Cause they never walked in these shoes   And they never had to cry these blues   How many men, turn their back on us so long   Always say what they gon do, but they never seem to come through      [Verse 2 - Chingy]:    Pardon my French but I don't think we ready for a lady president   It's evident that it's a mans world so that's irrelevant   The system think we all niggas and we not intellegent   But Martin Luther and Malcolm taught me before I'm heavensent   The girls havin kids and they still some kids   Poppin them out one after another like that's what it is   It's innocent cats doin bizz, they just tryin to live   And the police don't even know if the crime they did   It's got my brain in a twist, so I'm twistin a leaf   On my balcony smokin and drinkin trying to see some relief   If I can change our neighborhoods I would, put that on me   This world messed up, and that Stevie Wonder can see   So to my dawgs locked down set ya mind free   Cause you and I don't even believe you can get your degree   Sometimes I wonder in 20 years where we gon be   And when I say we, I mean my black community, let's go       [Chorus - Anthony Hamilton]:   They don't know, how it feels to hurt so long   Cause they never walked in these shoes   And they never had to cry these blues   How many men, turn their back on us so long   Always say what they gon do, but they never seem to come through      [Verse 3 - Chingy]:   I twist the cap off the bottle   Take a sip and see tomorrow    Like Pac, wash away the sorrow   While police hit the block, I be up all night, askin god for the truth   He told me thinking translated in my own words in the booth   Try to reach the youth,   Cause that's what matters today   I ain't too religious but I get on my knees and pray   Sometimes I wonder in 20 years where we gon be   I ain't gotta wonder no more, my people rollin with me, yeah       [Chorus - Anthony Hamilton]:   They don't know, how it feels to hurt so long   Cause they never walked in these shoes   And they never had to cry these blues   How many men, turn their back on us so long   Always say what they gon do, but they never seem to come through      [Outro]:   Yeah, they'll never come through (wo oh oh)   They don't know about this thing