Gangsta`s Paradise Lyrics

Gangsta`s Paradise lyrics

Gangsta's Paradise

 Coolio

 

 As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

 I take a look at my life and realise there's none left

 'Cause I've been brassing and laughing so long that

 Even my mamma thinks that my mind is gone

 But I aint never crossed a man that didn't deserve it

 Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of

 You better watch how you talking, and where you walking

 Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

 I really hate to trip but I gotta lope

 As they croak I see myself in the pistal smoke ... fool

 I'm the kinda G that little homies want to be like

 On my knees in the night, saying prayers in the street light

 

 They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

 They 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

 

 They got the situation, they got me facing

 I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the strip

 So I gotta be down with the hood team

 Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

 I'm an educated fool with my knee on my mind

 Got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye

 I'm a loped out gangsta set trippin banger

 And my homies is down so gonna rouse my anger ... fool

 Death aint nothing but a heart beat away

 I'm living life do or die, what can I say

 I'm 23 never will I live to see 24

 The way things is going I don't know

 

 Tell me why are we so blind to see

 That the ones we hurt are you and me

 

 They been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

 They 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 and the money, money and the power

 Minute after minute, hour after hour

 Everybody's running, but half of them aint looking

 What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cooking

 They say I've got to learn but nobody's here to teach me

 If they can't understand it, how can they reach 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

 

 Tell me why are we so blind to see

 That the ones we hurt are you and me

 Tell me why are we so blind to see

 That the ones we hurt are you and me ...