Gangsta's Paradise

[00:11.20] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:14.13] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:17.58] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[00:20.50] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:23.42] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:26.35] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:29.01] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:31.93] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:35.38] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:38.30] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:40.96] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:44.67] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[00:47.61] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:50.25] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[00:53.44] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:56.63] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[00:59.28] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:02.47] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:05.41] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:08.32] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:11.52] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:14.44] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:17.37] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:20.29] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:23.21] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:26.39] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:29.32] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:32.50] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[01:35.69] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:38.35] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:41.53] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:44.99] The way things is going I don't know

[01:47.38] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:50.30] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[01:59.07] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:02.51] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:05.44] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:08.89] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:11.55] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:14.47] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:17.40] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:20.58] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:23.77] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:26.95] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:29.08] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:31.47] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:35.47] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:38.67] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:41.84] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:44.50] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[02:48.22] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:50.87] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:54.07] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:56.73] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:59.64] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:02.57] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:06.02] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:09.47] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:11.87] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:16.64] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:23.29] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:29.13] That the ones we hurt are you and me?