Gangsta's Paradise

[00:26.06] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:28.72] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:31.91] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[00:35.35] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:37.75] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:40.67] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:44.13] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:47.04] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:49.70] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:52.89] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:55.81] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:58.99] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[01:02.45] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:04.84] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:08.29] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:10.95] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:14.14] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:16.79] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:20.51] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:22.91] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:26.36] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:28.75] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:31.93] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:34.59] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:37.79] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:40.72] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:43.91] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:46.83] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[01:49.75] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:52.93] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:55.86] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:59.06] The way things is going I don't know

[02:01.45] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:06.50] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:13.40] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:17.13] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:20.84] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:22.96] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:25.89] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:32.54] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:33.34] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:37.06] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:38.65] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:41.04] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:44.23] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:45.83] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:50.08] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:52.99] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:56.19] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:58.84] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[03:02.83] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:04.95] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:08.68] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:11.06] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:14.51] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:16.91] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:20.64] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:23.03] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:25.95] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:31.27] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:37.67] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:43.51] That the ones we hurt are you and me?