Gangsta's Paradise

[Intro]  G#  Fm  G  Cm

G#                          Fm
As I walk through the valley of the 
shadow of death
         G                      Cm
I take a look at my life and realize
 there's nothin' left
      G#                    
Cause I've been blasting and 
  Fm
laughing so long,
     G                        Cm
That even my mama thinks that my 
mind is gone
            G#                     
But I ain't never crossed a man 
    Fm
that didn't deserve it
    G                              
Me be treated like a punk you know 
      Cm
that's unheard of
  G#                              
You better watch how you're talking 
Fm
and where you're walking
   G                          Cm
Or you and your homies might be 
lined in chalk
  G#                     Fm
I really hate to trip but I gotta 
loc
        G                       Cm
As they croak, I see myself in the 
pistol smoke, fool
G#                      Fm
I'm the kinda G the little homies 
wanna be like
      G                       Cm
On my knees in the night saying 
prayers in the streetlight

G#         Fm                
Been spending most their lives, 
     G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#             Fm            
Been spending most their lives, 
         G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#        Fm                     
Keep spending most our lives, 
G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#            Fm                 
Keep spending most our lives, 
    G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise

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     G#                     Fm
Look at the situation they got me 
facin'
         Gm                       
I can't live a normal life, I was 
Cm
raised by the streets
      G#                   Fm
So I gotta be down with the hood 
team
          Gm                       
Too much television watching got me
 Cm
 chasing dreams
       G#                  Fm
I'm an educated fool with money on 
my mind
       Gm                   Cm
Got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in 
my eye
       G#                   Fm
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin'
 banger
        Gm                    
And my homies is down so don't 
 Cm
arouse my anger, fool
G#                         Fm
Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat 
away,
    Gm                 Cm
I'm living life, do or die, what can
 I say
    G#                       Fm
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 
24
     Gm                   Cm
The way things are going I don't 
know
       G#       Fm     Gm      Cm
Tell me why are we so blind to see
        G#        Fm      Gm      
That the ones we hurt are you and 
 Cm
me

G#         Fm                
Been spending most their lives, 
     G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#             Fm            
Been spending most their lives, 
         G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#        Fm                     
Keep spending most our lives, 
G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#            Fm                 
Keep spending most our lives, 
    G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise

G#                   Fm
Power and the money, money and the 
power
Gm                   Cm
Minute after minute, hour after hour
G#                      Fm
Everybody's running, but half of 
them ain't looking
           Gm                      
What's going on in the kitchen, but
   Cm
 I don't know what's cookin'
     G#                           
They say I gotta learn, but nobody's
Fm
 here to teach me
    Gm                         Cm
If they can't understand it, how can
 they reach me
   G#                  Fm
I guess they can't, I guess they 
won't
   Gm                           
I guess they front, that's why I 
        Cm
know my life is out of luck, fool

G#         Fm                
Been spending most their lives, 
     G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#             Fm            
Been spending most their lives, 
         G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#        Fm                     
Keep spending most our lives, 
G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise
G#            Fm                 
Keep spending most our lives, 
    G             Cm
living in the gangsta's paradise

       G#       Fm     Gm      Cm
Tell me why are we so blind to see
        G#        Fm      Gm      
That the ones we hurt are you and 
 Cm
me
       G#       Fm     Gm      Cm
Tell me why are we so blind to see
        G#        Fm      Gm      
That the ones we hurt are you and 
 Cm
me