Coolio - Gangsta s Paradise

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[00:11.42] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:14.42] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:17.72] 'Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long,

[00:20.47] That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

[00:23.50] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:26.27] Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of

[00:29.78] You better watch how you're talking and where you're walking

[00:32.53] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:35.54] I really hate to trip but I gotta loc

[00:38.55] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool

[00:41.56] I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:44.36] On my knees in the night saying prayers in the streetlight

[00:48.16] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[00:53.94] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[00:59.97] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:06.00] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:12.10] Look at the situation they got me facin'

[01:14.42] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:17.69] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:20.46] Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

[01:23.47] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:26.49] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:29.52] I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger

[01:32.54] And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger,

[01:35.31] Fool, death ain't nothing but a heart beat away,

[01:38.59] I'm living life, do or die, what can I say?

[01:41.60] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24

[01:44.86] The way things is going I don't know

[01:47.36] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:52.91] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[01:59.97] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:06.00] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:12.01] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:17.81] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:23.94] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:26.49] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:29.78] Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking

[02:32.55] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:35.57] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:38.34] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me

[02:41.88] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:44.14] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[02:48.40] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:54.18] Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:00.19] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:06.21] Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:10.97] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:17.04] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:23.37] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:29.17] That the ones we hurt are you and me?