Coolio - Gangsters Paradise (Official Lyrics On Screen)(MP3_160K)

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[00:12.70] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:16.47] I take a look at my life, and realize there's nothin' left

[00:18.48] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long

[00:21.24] That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:24.51] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:27.27] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:30.28] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:33.54] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:36.56] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:39.32] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:42.08] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:45.59] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[00:48.86] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[00:54.64] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:01.22] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:06.75] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[01:12.53] Look at the situation they got me facin'

[01:15.29] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:18.32] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:21.33] Too much television watchin' got me chasin' dreams

[01:24.34] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:27.36] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:30.37] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:33.38] And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger

[01:36.14] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:39.41] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:42.42] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

[01:45.93] The way things is goin', I don't know

[01:48.70] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:53.97] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:01.00] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:07.02] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:13.30] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:19.07] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:24.85] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:27.86] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:30.88] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:33.89] It's goin' on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:36.90] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:45.19] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:45.94] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:46.69] I guess they frontin', that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool!

[02:49.20] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[02:54.98] Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:01.01] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:06.78] Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise

[03:12.31] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:17.83] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:23.61] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:29.88] That the ones we hurt are you and me?