I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the state

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I hope this will be accepted as political, I believe it to be


They got the situation, they got me facing
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the state
So I gotta be down with the 'hood team
Too much television watching, got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
Like a lemon in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loced out gangsta, set trippin banger
And my homies is down so am arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heart beat away
I'm living life do or die, what can I say?
I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-four?
The way things is going I don't know

Tell me why are we too blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?



Live @ French TV show Taratata (1995)


As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life
And realize there's nuthin 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
He'd be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
You betta watch how ya talking
And where ya walking
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

I really hate to trip but I gotta lope
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda g that little homie's wanna be like
On my knees in the night
Saying prayers in the street light

Been spending all our lives
Living in gangsta's paradise
Been spending all our lives
Living in gangsta's paradise

Keep spending all your life
Living in gangsta's paradise
Keep spending all your life
Living in gangsta's paradise

They got the situation, they got me facing
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the state
So I gotta be down with the 'hood team
Too much television watching, got me chasing dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
Like a lemon in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loced out gangsta, set trippin banger
And my homies is down so am arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heart beat away
I'm living life do or die, what can I say?
I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-four?
The way things is going I don't know

Tell me why are we too blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?

Tell me why are we too blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?

Power and the money, money and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
What's going on in the kitchen?
But I don't know what's cooking
They say I gotta learn
But nobody's here to teach me
If they can't understand , how can they reach me?
I guess they can't
I guess they won't, I guess they front
That's why I know my life is out of luck, fool!

Been spending all your life
Living in gangsta's paradise
Been spending all your life
Living in gangsta's paradise

Keep spending all your life
Living in gangsta's paradise
Keep spending all your life
Living in gangsta's

Tell me why are we too blind to see
That the ones we hurt, are you and me?
Tell me why are we too blind to see
That the ones we hurt, are you and me?

Ain't no gansta's living in paradise
Ain't no gansta's living in paradise
Ain't no gansta's living in paradise
Ain't no gansta's living in paradise
Ain't no gansta's living in paradise
Ain't no gansta's living in paradise...


Credits
Words and music Stevie Wonder, Lawrence Sanders, Doug Rasheed & L Artis Ivey Jr
Black Bull Music/Boo Daddy Publishing/Large Variety Music/Madcastle Muzic/Wb Music Corp

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1. Proof against those who say there are no more protest songs.

One of my favorite songs of the 90s.