Gangsta's Paradise                             - Coolio

[Intro]
        (2x)

[Verse 1]
             
As I walk thro

              
ugh the valley

        
 of the shadow

 of death
            
I take a look 

              
at my life and

    
 realize there

's nothin' lef

t
             
Cause I've bee

              
n blasting and

 
 laughing so l

ong,
            
That even my m

              
ama thinks tha

     
t my mind is g

one

             
But I ain't ne

              
ver crossed a 

         
man that didn'

t deserve it
            
Me be treated 

              
like a punk yo

       
u know that's 

unheard of
             
You better wat

              
ch how you're 

            
talking and wh

ere you're wal

king
            
Or you and you

              
r homies might

    
 be lined in c

halk

             
I really hate 

              
to trip but I 


gotta loc
            
As they croak,

              
 I see myself 

       
in the pistol 

smoke, fool
             
I'm the kinda 

             
G the little h


omies wanna be

 like
            
On my knees in

              
 the night say

    
ing prayers in

 the streetlig

ht


[Chorus]
             
 Been spending

            
 most their li

            
ves, living in

              
 the gangsta's

 
 paradise
             
 Been spending

            
 most their li

            
ves, living in

              
 the gangsta's

 
 paradise
             
 Keep spending

            
 most our live

            
s, living in t

             
he gangsta's p


aradise
             
 Keep spending

            
 most our live

            
s, living in t

             
he gangsta's p


aradise

[Verse 2]
             
Look at the si

             
tuation they g


ot me facin'
            
I can't live a

              
 normal life, 

      
I was raised b

y the streets
             
So I gotta be 

              
down with the 


hood team
            
Too much telev

              
ision watching

        
 got me chasin

g dreams

             
I'm an educate

            
d fool with mo

ney on my mind
            
Got my ten in 

              
my hand and a 


gleam in my ey

e
             
I'm a loc'd ou

          
t gangsta set 

trippin' bange

r
            
And my homies 

              
is down so don

    
't arouse my a

nger, fool

             
Death ain't no

            
thing but a he

artbeat away,
            
I'm living lif

              
e, do or die, 


what can I say
             
I'm twenty thr

              
ee now, but wi

     
ll I live to s

ee twenty four
            
The way things

              
 are going I d

     
on't know


[Bridge]
             
Tell me why ar

          
e we so blind 

   
to see
             
That the ones 

          
we hurt are yo

      
u and me


[Chorus]
             
 Been spending

            
 most their li

            
ves, living in

              
 the gangsta's

 
 paradise
             
 Been spending

            
 most their li

            
ves, living in

              
 the gangsta's

 
 paradise
             
 Keep spending

            
 most our live

            
s, living in t

             
he gangsta's p


aradise
             
 Keep spending

            
 most our live

            
s, living in t

             
he gangsta's p


aradise


[Verse 3]
             
Power and the 

       
money, money a

nd the power
            
Minute after m

       
inute, hour af

ter hour
             
Everybody's ru

           
nning, but hal

f of them ain'

t looking
             
What's going o

#             
n in the kitch

        
en, but I don'

t know what's 

cookin'

             
They say I got

              
ta learn, but 

  
nobody's here 

to teach me
            
If they can't 

              
understand it,

 
 how can they 

reach me
             
I guess they c

        
an't, I guess 

they won't
             
I guess they f

#             
ront, that's w

             
hy I know my l


ife is out of 

luck, fool


[Chorus]
             
 Been spending

            
 most their li

            
ves, living in

              
 the gangsta's

 
 paradise
             
 Been spending

            
 most their li

            
ves, living in

              
 the gangsta's

 
 paradise
             
 Keep spending

            
 most our live

            
s, living in t

             
he gangsta's p


aradise
             
 Keep spending

            
 most our live

            
s, living in t

             
he gangsta's p


aradise


[Bridge]
             
Tell me why ar

          
e we so blind 

   
to see
             
That the ones 

          
we hurt are yo

     
u and me
             
Tell me why ar

          
e we so blind 

   
to see
             
That the ones 

          
we hurt are yo

     
u and me

[Outro]
        (2x)