Gangsta paradise

[00:11.33] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:14.25] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:17.44] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[00:20.65] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:23.84] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:26.50] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:29.67] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:32.60] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:35.18] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:38.62] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:41.28] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:44.21] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[00:48.19] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:50.59] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[00:54.04] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:56.43] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:00.15] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:02.28] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:06.26] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:08.38] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:11.83] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:14.49] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:17.42] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:20.33] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:23.52] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:26.44] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:29.37] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:32.55] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[01:35.23] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:38.43] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:41.62] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:44.81] The way things is going I don't know

[01:47.20] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:53.03] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:00.13] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:02.60] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:06.31] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:08.62] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:11.80] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:14.46] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:18.18] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:20.57] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:23.76] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:26.96] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:29.87] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:32.52] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:35.71] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:38.90] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:42.09] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:44.21] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[02:48.11] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:50.23] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:54.22] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:56.52] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:00.23] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:02.63] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:06.08] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:08.49] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:11.07] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:16.92] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:22.93] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:29.08] That the ones we hurt are you and me?