Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio (Lyrics) feat. L.V.

[00:00.69] "GANGSTA'S PARADISE"

[00:12.55] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:15.05] I take a look at my life and realize there's none left

[00:18.45] 'Cause I've been ****sing and laughing so long that

[00:21.35] Even my mamma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:24.25] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:26.95] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:30.35] You better watch how you talking, and where you walking

[00:33.35] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:35.95] I really hate to trip but I gotta lope

[00:38.75] As they croak I see myself in the pistal smoke fool

[00:42.05] I'm the kinda G that little homies want to be like

[00:45.25] On my knees in the night, saying prayers in the street light

[00:48.25] They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[00:54.65] They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:00.55] We keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:06.55] We keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[01:12.35] They got the situation, they got me facing

[01:14.75] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the *****

[01:17.85] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:20.75] Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

[01:23.85] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:26.85] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:29.75] I'm a loped out gangsta set trippin banger

[01:32.75] And my homies is down so gonna rouse my anger fool

[01:36.25] Death aint nothing but a heart beat away

[01:38.65] I'm living life do or die, what can I say

[01:41.75] I'm twenty three never will I live to see 24

[01:44.95] The way things is going I don't know

[01:47.55] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:53.15] That the ones we hurt are you and me

[02:00.25] They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:06.15] They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:12.15] We keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:18.05] We keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:24.05] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:26.65] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:29.65] Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking

[02:32.55] What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cooking

[02:35.55] They say I've got to learn but nobody's here to teach me

[02:38.55] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me

[02:41.65] I guess they can't

[02:43.05] I guess they won't

[02:44.05] I guess they front

[02:45.05] That's why I know my life is out of luck fool

[02:47.85] They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:53.75] They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[02:59.75] We keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:05.75] We keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

[03:11.05] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:16.65] That the ones we hurt are you and me

[03:22.55] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:28.45] That the ones we hurt are you and me