Concrete Reservation Songtext
von Syl Johnson

Funky smell in the midnight air
Woman crying ′cause her child got lost somewhere
The neighbors upstairs had a fight
They had a fight
'Cause someone′s old lady stayed out too late last night
Hey!

Here (in the ghetto) it's just a bad situation
Call it what you wanna, it's just a concrete reservation
Here (in the ghetto) it′s just a bad situation
Call it what you wanna, it′s just a concrete reservation (concrete reservation)


At night I can't hardly sleep, y′all
There's always a baby crying that lives across the hall
Last night they had a fire on the fifteenth floor
On the fifteenth floor
The whole family died, ′cause they didn't have no back door

Here (in the ghetto) it′s just a bad situation
Call it what you wanna, it's just a concrete reservation
Here (in the ghetto) it's just a bad situation
Call it what you wanna, it′s just a concrete reservation (concrete resevertion)
Here it′s just a bad situation
Call it what you wanna, it's just a concrete reservation (in the ghetto)

Ooh-ooh (in the ghetto)
Ooh-ooh (in the ghetto)
Oh-ohh (in the ghetto)
Here... (in the ghetto)
Here... (in the ghetto)
It′s just a bad situation...