F/C Am/C E/B Am/C repeat this throughout the whole song, chorus too.
Chords are:
F/C Am/C E/B
1 0 0
1 1 0
2 2 1
3 2 2
3 3 2
X X X
If you want you can play this little fill after the second Am/C in (each time you
repeat, with the exception of the pre-chorus fill, which is below this one)
Fill:
e-0-0-------- |
B------------ |
G------------ |
D------------ |
A------------ |
E-----0------ |
Pre-chorus fill:
* This can also be used during the chorus, alternating between this fill and the
other. However you prefer to play it.
e------------ |
B------------ |
G-------0---- |
D-0-2-3------ |
A------------ |
E------------ |
F/C Am/C
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
E/B Am/C
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
F/C Am/C
Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long,
E/B Am/C
That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
F/C Am/C
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
E/B Am/C
Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
F/C Am/C
You better watch how you're talking and where you're walking
E/B Am/C
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
F/C Am/C
I really hate to trip but I gotta loc
E/B Am/C
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
F/C Am/C
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
E/B Am/C
On my knees in the night saying prayers in the streetlight
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C
Look at the situation they got me facin'
E/B Am/C
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets
F/C Am/C
So I gotta be down with the hood team
E/B Am/C
Too much television watching got me chasing dreams
F/C Am/C
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
E/B Am/C
Got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye
F/C Am/C
I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
E/B Am/C
And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
F/C Am/C
Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
E/B Am/C
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
F/C Am/C
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
E/B Am/C
The way things are going I don't know
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Tell me why are we so blind to see
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
That the ones we hurt are you and me
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C
Power and the money, money and the power
E/B Am/C
Minute after minute, hour after hour
F/C Am/C
Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
E/B Am/C
What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'
F/C Am/C
They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
E/B Am/C
If they can't understand it, how can they reach me
F/C Am/C
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
E/B Am/C
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Tell me why are we so blind to see
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
That the one's we hurt are you and me
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
Tell me why are we so blind to see
F/C Am/C E/B Am/C
That the one's we hurt are you and me
