Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

[00:11.78] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

[00:14.57] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

[00:17.68] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that

[00:21.07] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone

[00:23.58] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

[00:26.68] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

[00:30.05] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'

[00:32.87] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

[00:35.69] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc

[00:38.77] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke

[00:41.29] Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like

[00:44.96] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight

[00:48.36] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:50.89] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[00:54.33] Been spendin' most their lives

[00:56.52] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:00.20] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:02.48] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:06.14] Keep spendin' most our lives

[01:08.39] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[01:11.62] Look at the situation they got me facing

[01:14.71] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street

[01:17.53] So I gotta be down with the hood team

[01:20.63] Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams

[01:23.75] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind

[01:26.29] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

[01:29.41] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger

[01:32.52] And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger

[01:35.35] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away

[01:38.17] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?

[01:41.84] I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?

[01:44.96] The way things is going I don't know

[01:47.21] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[01:53.16] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[02:00.52] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:02.50] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:06.17] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:08.70] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:12.10] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:14.64] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:18.03] Keep spendin' most our lives

[02:20.56] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:23.96] Power and the money, money and the power

[02:26.78] Minute after minute, hour after hour

[02:29.89] Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'

[02:32.72] It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'

[02:35.82] They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me

[02:38.65] If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?

[02:42.33] I guess they can't, I guess they won't

[02:44.30] I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

[02:48.26] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:50.53] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[02:54.20] Been spendin' most their lives

[02:56.73] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:00.40] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:02.94] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:06.63] Keep spendin' most our lives

[03:08.60] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise

[03:11.64] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:17.28] That the ones we hurt are you and me?

[03:23.20] Tell me why are we so blind to see

[03:29.14] That the ones we hurt are you and me?