Gangstar paradise

[00:11.40] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:28.66] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:31.86] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[00:35.30] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:37.96] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:40.61] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:44.06] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:46.99] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:49.64] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:52.30] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:55.49] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:59.21] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[01:02.13] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:04.78] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:07.97] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:10.90] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:13.82] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:17.00] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:20.19] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:22.85] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:26.03] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:28.69] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:31.87] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:34.53] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:37.46] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:40.91] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:43.83] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:46.76] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[01:49.67] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:52.59] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:55.78] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:58.97] The way things is going I don't know

[02:01.10] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:06.67] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:13.05] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:16.77] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:19.96] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:22.88] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:26.08] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:29.00] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:32.19] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:34.85] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:38.04] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:40.95] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:44.15] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:47.07] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:49.99] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:52.91] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:56.10] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:58.49] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[03:02.21] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:06.20] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:08.05] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:10.97] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:13.89] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:16.82] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:20.00] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:22.66] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:25.85] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:31.16] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:37.27] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:43.38] That the ones we hurt are you and me?