Chords for Gangsta's Paradise

[Ab] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[Ab] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
[Ab] As I walk through the valley [Fm] of the shadow of death, I [G] take a look at my life and realize
there's nothing left.
[Ab] Cause I've been frasin' [Bb] and laughin' [Ab] so long that [G] even my mama thinks [Eb] that my mind [D] is gone.
But [Ab] I ain't never crossed a man [F] that didn't deserve it.
[G] Me be treated like a frunk, [C] you know that's unheard [Ab] of.
You better watch how you're [F] talkin' and where you're [G] walkin'.
Or you and your homies [C] might be lyin' and [Ab] chokin'.
I really hate to trip, [F] but I gotta load.
[G] As they croak, I see myself [C] in the pistol smoke, [Ab] fool.
I'm the kind of G that [Fm] little homies wanna be like.
[G] On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers [Cm] in the [Ab] streetlight.
I've been [Fm] spendin' most of my hours [G] livin' in a [Cm] gangster's [Gm] paradise.
[Ab] I've been [Bb] spendin' most of my hours [G] livin' in a [Cm] gangster's [G] paradise.
[Ab] [Fm] I've been spendin' most of my hours [G] livin' in a [Cm] gangster's [G] paradise.
[Ab] I've been spendin' most [Fm] of my hours [G] livin' in a [C] gangster's paradise.
[Ab] Look at the situation [F] 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 watchin', got me chasin' dreams.
[Ab] I'm an educated fool [F] with money on my mind.
[G] Got my tin in my hand and the gleam in [Ab] my eye.
I'm a low-down [Fm] gangsta set trippin' bank.
[G] And my homies is down, so [C] don't arouse [Gm] my anger.
[Ab] Fool, death ain't nothin' [F] but a heartbeat away.
[G] I'm livin' life to a die.
[C] What can I say?
[Ab] I'm 23 now, but [F] will I live to see [G] 24?
The way things is [C] goin', I don't know.
Tell [Ab] me why [F] you [G] so blind [C] to see that [Ab] the one [F] _ _ [G] you love _
[Ab] I've been spendin' most of my hours [G] livin' _ [Cm] _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ [G] in a [Cm] gangster's paradise.
[Ab] _ Money _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [G] _
[Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[Ab] _ _ [F] in the [G] power, minute after minute, hour after hour.
[Ab] Everybody's [F] runnin', but I ain't lookin' [G] what's goin' on in the kitchen.
[C] But I don't know what's [Ab] makin'.
They say I got to learn, [F] but nobody's here to teach [B] me.
If they can't [C] understand it, how can they teach [Ab] me?
I guess they [F] can't.
I guess they won't.
I [G] guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of love, [Ab] fool
[Fm] We've been spending most our lives [G] living in a [Cm] dexterous [Gm] paradise
[Ab] We've been [Bb] spending most our lives [G] living [Cm] in a dexterous paradise
[Ab] We [Fm] keep spending most our lives
[G] _ _ [Cm] _ [G] _
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] [Fm] Tell [G] _ _ [Cm] _
[Ab] me why, _ _ [G] _ [Cm] you see, [Gm]
[Ab] that's the one we hurt
[G] _ [Cm] Tell [Ab] me why, _ [G] so blind [Cm] to see, [Ab] that's the one [Bb] we hurt
[G] Why you don't [Cm] let me
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