Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise. From album "Gangsta's Paradise" & "Dangerous Minds OST"Lyrics:As I walk through the valley of the shadow of deathI take a look at my lifeAnd realize there's nothing left.'Cause I've been blasting and laughing so longThat even my momma thinks that my mind has 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 betta watch how ya talkingAnd where ya walkingOr you and your homies might be lined in chalk.I really hate to trip but I gotta lob,As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.Fool, I'm the kinda g that little homie's wanna be like,On my knees in the nightSaying prayers in the street light.[Chorus]We've been spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We've been spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We keep spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We keep spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.Look at the situation, they got me facing,I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the state.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 mindGot my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye.I'm a locked out gangsta, set tripping bangerAnd my homies are down so don't arouse my anger.Fool, death ain't nothing but a heart beat away,I'm living life do or die, what can I say?I'm twenty-three now, will I ever live to see twenty-four,The way things is going I don't know.Tell me why are weSo blind to see.That the ones we hurtAre you and me?We've been spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We've been spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We keep spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We keep spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.Power in the money, money in the power,Minute after minute, hour after hour,Everybody's running, but half of them ain't lookingIt's going on in the kitchenBut I don't know what's cooking.They say I gotta learnBut 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, foo!We've been spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We've been spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We keep spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.We keep spending most our livesLiving in a gangsta's paradise.Tell me why are weSo blind to see.That the ones we hurtAre you and me?Tell me why are weSo blind to see.That the ones we hurtAre you and me?