Karaoké Gangsta's Paradise Postmodern Jukebox

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left

'Cos I've been blasting and laughing so so long that even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

And I ain't never crossed a man who didn't deserve it

Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of

You better watch how you're talking and where you're walking

Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

And I really hate to trip but I gotta loc

As they croak I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool

I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like on my knees in the night saying prayers in the streetlight

Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Look at the situation they got me facin'

I can't live a normal life

I was raised by the streets

So I gotta be down with the hood team

Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

I'm an educated fool with money on my mind l got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye

I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger

And my homies are down so don't arouse my anger

Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away

I'm living life do or die what can I say

I'm twenty-three now but will I live to see twenty-four?

The way thing is going

I don't know

Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Tell me why are we so blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me?

Power and the money money and the power

Minute after minute hour after hour

Everybody's running but half of them ain't looking

What's going on in the kitchen but I don't know what's cookin'

They say I gotta learn but nobody's here to teach me

If they can't understand it how can they reach me

I guess they can't and I guess they won't

I guess they front that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise

Keep spending most our lives living in the gangsta's paradise