As I walk through the valley
I take a look at my life and realize
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long
That even my momma thinks
But I ain't never crossed a man
Me be treated like a punk,
you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you talkin'
I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc
I see myself in the pistol smoke
the little homies wanna be like
On my knees in the night,
sayin' prayers in the streetlight
They been spending most their lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
They been spending most their lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
Look at the situation they got me facin'
I can't live a normal life,
I was raised by the street
So I gotta be down with the hood team
Too much television watching,
I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger
Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away
I'm livin' life do or die, yeah, what can I say?
but will I live to see twenty-four?
The way things is going I don't know
They been spending most their lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
They been spending most their lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
Minute after minute, hour after hour
but half of them ain't lookin'
It's going on in the kitchen,
but I don't know what's cookin'
but nobody's here to teach me
If they can't understand it,
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
They been spending most their lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
They been spending most their lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
We keep spending most our lives
Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
