Gangsta's Paradise

[00:49.23] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
[00:51.68] I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
[00:54.75] 'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long
[00:57.54] Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone
[01:00.00] But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
[01:02.99] Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
[01:05.72] You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'
[01:08.78] Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
[01:11.45] I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc
[01:14.22] As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke
[01:17.01] Fool, I'm the kinda G that little homies wanna be like
[01:19.92] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight
[01:25.99] Keep spendin' most our lives
[01:28.27] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[01:31.55] Been spendin' most their lives
[01:33.94] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[01:37.21] Keep spendin' most our lives
[01:39.55] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[01:42.60] Keep spendin' most our lives
[01:45.28] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[02:11.66] Look at the situation they got me facin'
[02:13.49] I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street
[02:16.45] So I gotta be down with the hood team
[02:18.98] Too much television watchin' got me chasin' dreams
[02:21.72] I'm a educated fool with money on my mind
[02:24.65] Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
[02:27.77] I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger
[02:30.51] And my homies are down so don't arouse my anger
[02:33.25] Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away
[02:36.05] I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?
[02:38.93] I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
[02:41.98] The way things is goin' I don't know
[02:44.24] Tell me why are we so blind to see
[02:49.89] That the ones we hurt are you and me?
[02:55.22] Tell me why are we so blind to see
[03:01.04] That the ones we hurt are you and me?
[03:08.58] Keep spendin' most our lives
[03:10.15] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[03:13.23] Been spendin' most their lives
[03:15.63] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[03:18.98] Keep spendin' most our lives
[03:21.45] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[03:24.45] Keep spendin' most our lives
[03:26.87] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[03:30.72] Only know living as a gangsta
[03:35.41] When you gonna back to your darkness, say this!
[03:38.41] Forget the red light when it's hard to wait
[03:41.34] Black or the white four leaf clover, lucky like this
[03:44.26] Nothing's going right
[03:45.42] Then catching one a clover
[03:47.22] I know world, living as a gangsta
[03:55.83] Keep spendin' most our lives
[03:57.81] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[04:01.17] Been spendin' most their lives
[04:03.52] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[04:06.83] We keep spendin' most our lives
[04:09.03] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
[04:12.28] We keep spendin' most our lives
[04:14.85] Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
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