Chords for Coolio Feat LV- Gangsta Paradise (Live At NRJ Awards 1996)

Everybody [F] say yeah!
[G] _ [C] Say yeah!
[Ab] _ [F] Say yeah!
[G] _ [C] Say yeah!
[Ab] I walk through the valley [Bbm] of the shadow of death
I [G] take a look at my life
And [Eb] realize there's nothing left
[Ab] Cause I've been back in [Bb] Atlanta so long that
[G] Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
But [Ab] I ain't never crossed a bend [F] that didn't deserve it
[G] Me be treated like a fool
You [C] know that's an omen
[Ab] You better watch out
Cause I'm a man [F] that's talking and when you're walking
[G] Oh you and your homies [C] might be lying
And so [Ab] I really hate this trip
[F] But I gotta love it
[G] I see myself [C] in the pistol smokes
[Ab] I'm the kind of treat
A [F] little homie's gonna be like
[G] I'm on Eastern and I'm [C] saying prayers
In the [Ab] streetlight
Been spending [Bb] most my life
[G] Living in the extra [Eb] paradise
[Ab] Been spending [C] most my life
[G] Living in the extra [Ab] paradise
Living in the extra paradise
Been spending [Bb] most my life
[G] Living in the extra [Eb] paradise
[Ab] Been spending [Bb] most my life
[G] Living in the extra paradise
[Ab] Forget the situation
[F] They got me facing
[G] I can't live a normal life
[C] I was raised by the state
[Ab] So I gotta be there [F] with the hood team
[Eb] Too much television
She got me chasing dreams
[Ab] I'm an educated fool
[F] With money on my mind
[G] Back in Lebanon in my head
[C] _
[Ab] I'm a low-docker
[F] Sick tripping banger
[G] And my homies been dead
So [C] don't I rhyme hanger [Ab] fool
I'm just a thing
I'm just [F] another heartbeat away
I'm [G] living life to a [C] dime
What can I say
[Ab] I'm 23 but [F] will I live to see
24 [G] or anything that's going [C] on
I don't know Tell [Ab] me
[F] I'll be [G] so blind to [C] see
Every time [Ab] we run
I can [F] see her
[G] I can feel her
[C] And we need her
[Ab] Everybody
[Bb] _ _ [G] Put your [Eb] hands
Put your hands [Ab] in the air
_ [Bb] Put [G] your hands in the air _
[Ab] Everybody
_ [Bb] _ [G] Everybody
[Eb] Put your [Ab] hands in the air
[Bb] Put your hands in the air
The [G] _ _ _
[Ab] power is the money
[F] Money is the [G] power
Minute after [C] minute
Hour after hour
[Ab] Everybody's running
[F] But I have an epidemic [G] that's going on in the kitchen
[C] But I don't know what's cooking
[Ab] They say I got the [F] nerve but nobody's here to teach me
[G] They say they understand [C] me
How can they [Ab] reach me
I just ain't kind
[F] I just ain't broke
[G] That's why [C] I know my life is on the [Ab] line
You [Bb] see what's going on
[G] You [Eb] see what's going on _
[Ab] You see [Bb] what's going [G] on
You see what's going on _ _
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[N] _ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
No gangsters living in paradise.
And no gangsters living in paradise.
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