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Y'all stay sleeping; watch him drown in cheeks for the rest of the semester.
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Humanity at its best.
Respect.
If you need to vent, do it man. DM me if you need to.
you press play? I'm kind of soft in terms of having my emotions moved, but **** makes me tear up every time I listen. unbelievably beautifully written song.How Elvis got a song talking about the ghetto??
How Elvis got a song talking about the ghetto??
It is a narrative of generational poverty: a boy is born to a mother who already has more children than she can feed in the ghetto of Chicago. The boy grows up hungry, steals and fights, purchases a gun and steals a car, attempts to run, but is shot and killed. The song ends with another child being born in the ghetto, and implies that the newborn could meet the same fate, continuing the cycle of poverty and violence. The feeling of an inescapable circle is created by the structure of the song, with its simple, stark phrasing; by the repetition of the phrase "in the ghetto" as the close of every fourth line; and finally by the repetition of the first verse's "and his mama cries" just before the beginning and as the close of the last verse. It is played in the key of B flat.