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Lyrics to "Gangsta's Paradise"
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As I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death
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I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
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'Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long that
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Even my mamma thinks that my mind is gone
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But I ain't never crossed a man who didn't deserve it
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Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
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Ya better watch how ya talkin', and where ya walkin'
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Or you and your homies might be 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 pistol smoke
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I'm the kind of G the little homies want to be like
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On my knees in the night, saying prayers in the street light
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They been spending most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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They been spending most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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We've been spending most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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We've been spending most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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Look at the situation they got me facin'
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I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street
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So I gotta be down with the hood team
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Too much television watching got me chasing dreams
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I'm a educated fool with money on my mind
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Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
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I'm a loc'ed-out gangsta, set-trippin' banger
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And my homies is down, so don't rouse my anger – fool
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Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away
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I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
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I'm twenty-three, never will I live to see twenty-four
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The way things is going, I don't know
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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
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They been spending most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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They been spending most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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We've been spending most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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We've been spending most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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Power and the money, money and the power
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Minute after minute, hour after hour
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Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking what's going on in the kitchen
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But I don't know what's cooking
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They say I've got to 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 know my life is out of luck, fool
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They been spending most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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They been spending most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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We've been spending most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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We've been spending most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
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Tell me why are we so blind to see, that the ones we hurt are you and me
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Tell me why are we so blind to see, that the ones we hurt are you and me
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