Pastime Paradise
Stevie Wonder| GANGSTA'S PARADISE - Il rifacimento di Coolio | |
| PASTIME PARADISE | GANGSTA'S PARADISE |
| They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been wasting most their lives Glorifying days long gone behind They've been wasting most their days In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise Tell me who of them will come to be How many of them are you and me | As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left coz 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 me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of you better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking or you and your homies might be lined in chalk I really hate to trip but i gotta, loc As I Grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight |
| Dissipation Race Relations Consolation Segregation Dispensation Isolation Exploitation Mutilation Mutations Miscreation Confirmation.......to the evils of the world | been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise |
| They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise They've been looking in their minds For the day that sorrow's gone from time They keep telling of the day When the Savior of love will come to stay Tell me who of them will come to be How many of them are you and me | They got the situation, they got me facin' I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes 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 got my 10 in my hand and a gleam in my eye I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away, I'm living life, do or die, what can I say I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24 the way things are going I don't know |
| Proclamation of Race Relations Consolation Integration Verification of Revelations Acclamation World Salvation Vibrations Simulation Confirmation.......to the peace of the world | Tell me why are we, so blind to see That the one's we hurt, are you and me been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise |
| They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a pastime paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise They've been spending most their lives Living in a future paradise We've been spending too much of our lives Living in a pastime paradise | 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 kickin' they say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me if they can't undersstand it, 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 |
| Let's start living our lives Living for the future paradise Praise to our lives Living for the future paradise Shame to anyones lives Living in a pastime paradise | been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise Tell me why are we, so blind to see That the one's we hurt, are you and me Tell me why are we, so blind to see That the one's we hurt, are you and me |
