As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
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I take a look at my life
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And realize there's nothing left.
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'Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long
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That even my momma thinks that my mind has gone.
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But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it.
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Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of.
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You betta watch how ya talking
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And where ya walking
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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 lob,
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As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.
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Fool, I'm the kinda g that little homie's wanna be like,
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On my knees in the night
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Saying prayers in the street light.
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[Chorus]
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We've been spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We've been spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We keep spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We keep spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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Look at the situation, they got me facing,
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I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the state.
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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 an 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 locked out gangsta, set tripping banger
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And my homies are down so don't arouse my anger.
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Fool, death ain't nothing but a heart beat away,
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I'm living life do or die, what can I say?
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I'm twenty-three now, will I ever 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
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So blind to see.
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That the ones we hurt
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Are you and me?
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We've been spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We've been spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We keep spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We keep spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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Power in the money, money in 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
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It'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 gotta learn
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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,
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I guess they won't,
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I guess they front,
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That's why I know my life is out of luck, foo!
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We've been spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We've been spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We keep spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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We keep spending most our lives
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Living in a gangsta's paradise.
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Tell me why are we
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So blind to see.
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That the ones we hurt
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Are you and me?
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Tell me why are we
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So blind to see.
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That the ones we hurt
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Are you and me?
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Gangstas Paradise
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In Fear And Faith |