Gangstas Paradise

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[Verse 1]
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As I walk through the valley of the
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 shadow of death
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I take a look at my life and 
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realize there's nothin' left
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'Cause I've been blasting and 
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laughing for so so long,
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That even my mama thinks that my 
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mind is gone
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But I ain't never crossed a man 
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that didn't deserve it
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Me be treated like a punk you know 
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that's unheard of
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You better watch how you're talking
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 and where you're walking
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Or you and your homies might be 
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lined in chalk
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I really hate to trip but I gotta 
loc'
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As they croak, I see myself in the 
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pistol smoke, fool
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I'm the kinda G the little homies 
wanna be like
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On my knees in the night saying 
prayers in the streetlight

[Chorus 1]
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  Been spending most their lives,
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 living in the gangsta's paradise   
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[Verse 2]
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Look at the situation they got me 
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facin'
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I can't live a normal life, I was 
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raised by the streets
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So I gotta be down with the hood 
team
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Too much television watching got me
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 chasing dreams
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I'm an educated fool with money on
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 my mind
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Got my 10 in my hand and a gleam 
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in my eye
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I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin'
 banger
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And my homies is down so don't 
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arouse my anger

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Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat 
away,
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I'm living life, do or die, what 
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can I say
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I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 
24
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The way things are going I don't 
know

[Chorus 2]
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  Been spending most their lives,
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 living in the gangsta's paradise   
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  Keep spending most our lives, 
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living in the gangsta's paradise   
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[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
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Tell me why are we so blind to see
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That the ones we hurt are you and me

[Verse 3]
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Power and the money, money and 
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the power
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Minute after minute, hour after hour
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Everybody's running, but half of 
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them ain't looking
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What's going on in the kitchen, but
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 I don't know what's cookin'
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They say I gotta learn, but nobody's
 here to teach me
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If they can't understand it, how can
 they reach me
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I guess they can't, I guess they 
won't
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I guess they front, that's why I 
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know my life is out of luck, fool

[Chorus 3]
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  Been spending most their lives,
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 living in the gangsta's paradise   
(x2)
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  Keep spending most our lives, 
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living in the gangsta's paradise   
(x2)
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