Gangster's paradise

[00:52.75] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:55.92] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:59.64] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[01:03.39] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[01:06.08] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[01:09.41] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[01:13.33] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[01:16.57] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[01:19.96] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[01:23.07] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[01:26.26] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[01:29.92] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[01:33.92] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:36.71] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:40.77] Been spendin' most their lives

[01:43.53] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:47.46] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:50.27] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:54.17] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:56.82] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:00.18] Look at the situation they got me facing

[02:03.56] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[02:06.86] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[02:10.25] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[02:13.58] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[02:16.96] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[02:20.53] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[02:23.80] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[02:26.96] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[02:30.44] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[02:33.95] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[02:37.53] The way things is going I don't know

[02:40.45] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[02:46.95] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:53.82] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:00.48] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:08.41] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:11.00] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:15.08] Been spendin' most their lives

[03:17.87] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:21.80] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:24.51] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:28.55] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:31.35] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:55.03] Power and the money, money and the power

[03:58.56] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[04:01.95] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[04:04.79] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[04:08.38] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[04:11.80] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[04:15.58] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[04:18.07] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[04:21.53] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[04:27.96] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[04:34.85] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[04:41.45] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[04:49.57] Been spendin' most their lives

[04:52.07] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[04:56.20] Been spendin' most their lives

[04:58.84] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[05:02.91] Keep spendin' most our lives

[05:05.48] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[05:09.83] Keep spendin' most our lives

[05:12.25] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[05:15.25] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[05:21.89] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[05:28.66] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[05:35.39] That the ones we hurt are you and me?