Chords for Coolio - "Gangsta's Paradise" Live (1996)

_ _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ [Ab] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, [G] I take a look at my life [Cm] and realize
there's nothing [Ab] left, cause I've been [Bb] blasting and laughing so long [G] that even my mother [Eb] thinks
that my mind is gone, [Ab] but I ain't never crossed a [F] man that didn't deserve it.
[G] Me be treated like a fool, [C] you know that's unheard [Ab] of.
You better watch how [F] you're talking and where you're [G] walking, or you and your [C] homies might
be lying in shock.
[Ab] I really hate the drip, [F] but I kinda love it.
[G] As I coke, I see myself [C] in the pistol smoke.
[Ab] Fool, I'm the kind of G [F] that little homies wanna be [Em] like on my knees in the night, [C] saying
prayers in the [Ab] streetlight.
We've been spending most our lives [G] living in a [Eb] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] That's right.
We've been [Bb] spending most our lives [G] living in a [Cm] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] Say what?
We keep spending most our lives [G] living in a [Eb] bachelor's paradise. [Ab] Come on.
We keep [Bb] spending most our lives [G] living in a [Cm] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] Look at the [F] situation they got me facing.
[G] I can't live a normal life.
[C] I was raised by the state, [Ab] so I gotta be [F] there with the hood team.
[Bbm] Too much television watching got me [Ab] chasing dreams.
I'm an educated [F] fool with money on my mind.
[G] Mac 11 in my [C] hand and a gleaming mind.
[Ab] I'm a soaked out beast, [F] a jet-tripping banger, [G] and my homies is dead, [C] so don't arise my anger.
[Ab] Fool, death ain't [F] nothing but a heartbeat away.
[G] I'm living life to a [C] day.
What can I [Ab] say?
I'm 23.
Never [F] will I live to see [G] 24 go away.
Thank you so [C] much.
I don't know.
Tell [Ab] me why [F] are we [G] so blind [C] to see that [Ab] the ones [F] we hurt [G] are you [C] and me?
That's right.
[Ab] We've been spending most our [G] lives living in a [Cm] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] I don't think they heard.
We've been [Bb] spending most our [G] lives living in a [Eb] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] Yeah!
We keep spending most our lives [G] living in a [Cm] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] We keep [Bb] spending most our lives [G] living in a [Eb] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] Power and the [F] money, money and the [G] power, minute after [C] minute, hour after hour.
[Ab] Everybody's [F] winning, but half of them ain't looking.
[G] It's going on in the [C] kitchen, but I don't know what's [Ab] shaking.
They say I got to [F] learn, but nobody's here to teach [G] me, and they can't understand.
[C] How can they [Ab] reach me?
I guess they [F] can't.
I guess they won't.
[G] That's why [C] I know my life is out of [Ab] luck.
Fool!
We've been spending most our lives [G] living in a [Cm] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] That's right.
We've been [Bb] spending most our lives [G] living in a [Cm] bachelor's paradise. [Ab] Say what?
We've been spending most our lives [G] living in a [Eb] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] Yeah!
We've [Bb] been spending most our lives [G] living in a [Cm] bachelor's paradise.
[Ab] Tell me!
Why are we [G] so blind [Cm] to see [Ab] that the ones [Bb] we hurt [G] are you [Eb] and me?
[Ab] Tell me!
Why are we [G] so blind [Eb] to see [Ab] that the ones [Fm] we hurt [G] are you [Eb] and me?
[Ab] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] Ain't [Bb] no gangsters [G] living [Eb] in paradise.
[Ab] Ain't no gangsters [G] living [Eb] in paradise.
[Ab] Ain't no gangsters [G] living [N] in paradise. _ _ _
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