-
- As I walk through the valley
- of the shadow of death
- I take a look at my life
- and realise there's nuthin' left
- 'Cuz I've been blasting
- and laughing so long
- that even my mama thinks
- that my mind is gone
-
- But I ain't 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're talking,
- and where you're walking
- Or you and your homies
- might be lined in chalk
-
- I really hate to trip
- but i gotta loc
- As I Grow 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.
-
- Been spending most their lives,
- living in the gangsta's paradise
- Been spending most their lives,
- living in the gangsta's paradise
- Keep spending most our lives,
- living in the gangsta's paradise
- Keep spending most our lives,
- living in the gangsta's paradise
-
- The getto situation,
- they got me facin'
- I can't live a normal life,
- I was raised by the stripes
- So I gotta be down
- with the hood team
- 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 gleam in my eye
- I'm a loc'd out
- 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
-
- **
- Been spending most their lives,
- living in the gangsta's paradise
- Been spending most their lives,
- living in the gangsta's paradise
- Spending most our lives,
- living in the gangsta's paradise
- 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 ain't looking
- What's going on in the kitchen,
- but I don't know what's cookin'
-
- They say I gotta learn,
- but nobody's here to teach me
- If they can't undersstand 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
-
- ** Repeat
-
- 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)
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