Tell me why Coolio Feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Lyrics

(coolio)
as i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i take a look at my life and realize there's nothin left, cause i've been blastin and laughin so long that even my mama thinks that my mind is gone, but i ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it, me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of, you better watch how you talkin, and where you walkin, or you and your homies might be lined in chalk, 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 sayin prayers in the street light
(l.v.)
we've been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
we've been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
we keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paraside
we keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paraside

(coolio)
look at the situation, they got me facin, i can't live a normal life, i was raised by the strict, so i gotta be down with the hood team, too much television watchin got me chasin dreams, i'm a educated fool with money on my mind, got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye, i'm a loc'ed out gangsta, set-trippin banger, and my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger, fool, death ain't nothin but a heart beat away, i'm livin life do or die a, what can i say? i'm twenty-three now, but will i live to see twenty-four? the way things is goin i dunno

(l.v.)
tell me why are we, so blind to see
that the ones we hurt, are you and me
we've been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
we've been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
we keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paraside
we keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paraside

(coolio)
power and the money, money and the power, minute after minute, hour after hour, everybody's runnin, but half of them ain't lookin, it's goin on in the kitchen, but i dont know what's cookin, they say i got ta learn, but nobody's here to teach me, if they cant understand it, how can they reach me? i guess they can't, i guess they won't, guess they front, that's why i know my life is outta luck, fool

(l.v.)
we've been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
we've been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
we keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paraside
we keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paraside
tell me why are we, so blind to see
that the ones we hurt, are you and me
tell me why are we, so blind to see
that the ones we hurt, are you and me