Yo listen
I met this girl on Baltic Ave.
And you can tell how she steps on boardwalk,

She was park place
I asked what she was doing on this side of town
She said she had some taxes to pay

I figure I'd take a chance and advance to go
And find out more about
Cause there more to know than the way she ways

And the way that she wears her clothes,
Or the way she plays this game (so cold)
She said she came up rough

And one income was not enough
There'd be nights she'd go to sleep hungry
Cause her mom was always short on food and money

See people used to joke a lot
Tease her bout her clothes not being in style
Dressed in dingy skirts and dirty sneakers

From the finest second hand down Oriental Ave.

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But now look at her
She got this game on lock

Anything she ever wanted now she got it
And I've gotta say
And I'm proud to see

That someone like her is in central
Womanopoly


Once she graduated junior high she started working overtime
Scrubbing floors or working on $$#embly lines
Just so she could help her mother out and

After college they moved into Marvin Gardens
And she got a job working at the city water department
To raise enough cash

In move into community chest condos on Pennsylvania Ave
She fell in love with this dude named ray
Who was a small time hustler from St. Charles place


And he was known for always bein in and out of trouble
But the problem was that he was never on her level

She argued with her mom about ray's work
Til he was sent upstate on the same day that she gave birth
But see the baby never made it, it drove her nearly crazy

And she couldn't take it

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(Listen) see where she came from
Many people find it hard just to hang on

You often find them in the same place complaining
Instead of finding a better way of maintain
She could have balled up and cry

Wished that she would die
And just gave up on tryin
Instead she grind from the bottom

Just to make it to the bottom now shes flying

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