Coolio Featuring Lv Gangstas Paradise Lyrics

Gangstas Paradise Lyrics

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 ...