Coolio - Gangsta s Paradise
[00:11.35] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
[00:14.29] I take a look at my life and realize nothing’s left
[00:17.54] Cause I’ve been blasting and laughing so long that even
[00:20.62] My mama thinks my minds gone but I ain’t never crossed
[00:24.75] A man that didn’t deserve it.
[00:26.47] Me be treated like a punk, you never unheard of
[00:29.74] You better watch how you’re talking and where you’re walking
[00:32.80] Or you and your homies might lined the chalked
[00:35.62] I really hate the trip but I gotta loc
[00:38.48] As the croak I see myself in the pistol smoke
[00:41.21] Fool! I’m the kinda g that little homies wanna be like
[00:43.69] All my knees in the night
[00:46.00] Saying prayers in the street light..
[00:48.01] Been spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise
[00:59.66] Keep spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise
[01:11.51] Look at the situation, they got me facing
[01:14.49] I can never live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes
[01:17.39] So I gotta be down with the hood team
[01:20.26] Too much television watching got me chasing dreams
[01:23.28] I’m a educated fool with money on my mind
[01:26.18] Got my tin in my hand and a gleam in my eye
[01:29.37] I’m a loc’d gangsta set trippin banger
[01:32.44] And my homies is down so don’t arouse my anger
[01:35.18] Fool! death ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away
[01:38.03] I’m living life, do or die what can I say
[01:41.58] I’m twenty-three now , will I ever see twenty-four
[01:44.59] The way things are going I don’t know
[01:47.06] Tell me why are we so blind to see
[01:52.88] That the ones we hurt are you and me
[01:59.31] Been spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise
[02:11.75] Keep spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise
[02:23.72] Power in the money , money in the power
[02:26.50] Minute after minute, hour after hour
[02:29.44] Everybodys running but half ain’t looking
[02:32.63] What’s going on in the kitchen but don’t know what’s cookin’
[02:35.79] They say I gotta learn but nobody’s here to teach me
[02:42.06] I guess they can’t , I guess they won’t , I guess they fornt
[02:45.74] That’s why my life is outta love fool !
[02:47.76] Been spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise
[02:59.71] Keep spending most of our lives living in the gangsta’s paradise
[03:11.12] Tell me why are we so blind to see
[03:16.90] That the ones we hurt are you and me
[03:23.14] Tell me why are we so blind to see
[03:29.03] That the ones we hurt are you and me
