Gangsta's Paradise

[00:12.63] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:15.55] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:18.74] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[00:21.95] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:25.14] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:27.80] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:30.97] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:33.90] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:36.48] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:39.92] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:42.58] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:45.51] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[00:49.49] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:51.89] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[00:55.34] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:57.73] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:01.45] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:03.58] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:07.56] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:09.68] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:13.13] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:15.79] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:18.72] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:21.63] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:24.82] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:27.74] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:30.67] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:33.85] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[01:36.53] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:39.73] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:42.92] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:46.11] The way things is going I don't know

[01:48.50] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:54.33] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:01.43] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:03.90] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:07.61] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:09.92] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:13.10] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:15.76] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:19.48] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:21.87] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:25.06] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:28.26] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:31.17] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:33.82] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:37.01] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:40.20] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:43.39] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:45.51] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[02:49.41] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:51.53] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:55.52] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:57.82] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:01.53] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:03.93] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:07.38] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:09.79] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:12.37] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:18.22] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:24.23] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:30.38] That the ones we hurt are you and me?