Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio

[00:11.26] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:14.28] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:17.73] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[00:21.45] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:23.57] 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

[00:29.68] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:32.88] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:35.53] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:38.18] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:41.64] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:44.57] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[00:48.04] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:50.42] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[00:53.88] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:56.53] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[00:59.98] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:02.64] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:05.82] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:08.48] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:12.20] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:14.61] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:17.55] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:20.20] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:23.40] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:26.60] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:29.51] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:32.72] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[01:35.36] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:38.28] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:41.46] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:44.65] The way things is going I don't know

[01:47.04] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:50.23] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[01:59.79] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:02.45] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:05.90] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:09.09] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:11.75] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:14.42] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:17.87] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:20.53] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:23.98] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:26.90] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:29.82] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:33.01] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:35.67] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:38.60] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:41.51] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:44.45] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[02:47.90] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:50.56] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:53.75] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:56.40] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:59.86] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:02.55] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:05.99] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:08.39] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:11.86] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:17.43] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:23.81] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:29.39] That the ones we hurt are you and me?