Coolio - Gangsta Paradise
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As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at
my life and realize there's nothing left coz I've been blasting and laughing
so long, that even my mama thinks that my mind is gone but I ain't never
cross the man that didn't deserve it me be treated like a punk you know
that's unheard of you better watch how you're talking, and where you're
walking or you and your homies might be lying in chalk I really hate to
trip but I gotta loc As they groove I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like on my knees in the night,
saying prayers in the streetlight.
They've been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
They've been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise We keep
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
The get to situation, they got me facing I can't live a normal life,
I was raised by the stripes so I gotta be down with the hood teen too much
television watching got me chasing dreams I'm an educated fool with money
on my mind got my tin in my hand and a grim in my eye I'm a low down gangsta
set trippin' banger and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away, I'm living life, do or die, what
can I say I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24 the way things are going
I don't know
Tell me why are we, so blind to see That the one's we hurt, are you
and me They've been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's
paradise They've been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's
paradise We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Power in the money, money in the power minute after minute, hour after
hour everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking what's going on
in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cooking they say I gotta learn,
but nobody's here to teach me if they can't understand it, how can they
teach me I guess they can't, I guess they won't I guess they front, that's
why I know my life is out of luck, fool
They've been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
They've been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise We keep
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise Tell me why are
we, so blind to see That the one's we hurt, are you and me Tell me why
are we, so blind to see That the one's we hurt, are you and me
(fade out)