In My Sleep

Album: Padded Room (2009)
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  • Baby girl told me in my sleep I was talkin
    So it's only natural I asked her "what I said?"
    She said she woke up when she heard
    But she was so damn tired she couldn't make out a word
    She said she was trying to see if eventually if I would scream the name of a bird
    I told her "that's absurd"
    And then gave her the face like "word?!"
    And then she replied "yeah"
    Said "it was quite weird", said she was type scared
    I said "that's the side effect that you get when you trade bad dreams for some great nightmares"
    When I close my eyes, I escape the poltergeist
    My escape from reality just what I needed
    Brings me to a place where shorty never cheated
    And even if she tried and succeeded
    In this other world I wouldn't even get heated
    Fuck the details, I don't care about why
    I'm chillin with my grandmother, she ain't die
    I was browsing online and seen Mike on that banner
    And said "you can be like me and beat cancer"
    Anything I touched I feel
    Know its fiction but it seems so real
    Was leaving out the casino with a nympho
    Yes Ray it can be so simple
    Here's how I avoid problem with my kin folk
    Learn how to build me a house with no win
    Dows.. and that's when I think I saw a ribbon in the sky but it wasn't from an in
    Tro... 'cause where I'm at there's no rumors or gossip but still got love for Miss In
    Fo... she said in my sleep I be laughing, but shit seem funny to me
    My ice cream was 200 degrees
    If it dripped I'd get a hole in my dungarees
    See my animinoty is my protection
    And me and hip hop have no connection
    Which got me to reflecting
    Is that why the mirror don't show my reflection
    When I close my eyes there's no dollar
    So we can stretch that one as an excuse
    Of why folks do the things they do
    Or why people act so brand new?
    I had wings on flying outta prison with a ratchet
    Was only there 'cause someone snitched
    No ones poor but no ones rich
    Just my way of creeping if life's a bitch
    Took a walk on the ceiling just to get my mind right
    That was yesterday... so in hindsight
    Since I was able to haul off
    I took it as God telling my I'll never fall off
    Got rid of the name brands and the jewelry
    Most people just use it as medicine
    Like it takes them somewhere they ain't never been
    But here you better off not better then
    Stuck in the room with an elephant
    Open the closet and dapped up my skeleton
    Had a convo with a man with no ears
    And all of a sudden everything became so clear
    Have no fear
    I just bought a first class trip to nowhere, everybody goes there
    But they don't stay the whole year,
    Me I got 365 shows there
    My girl said in my sleep I be walking, so I ask baby "where I go?"
    She said I be walking slow,
    She don't ever wanna get outta bed so she don't know
    I went to see a man walking on water
    Asked if he'd ever get things back in order
    I been there two years over a quarter
    But every time I open my eyes it's like torture
    He said "please I gave you a whole other world for you to go do with as you please
    Just so you appeased mixed with a couple of signs bout real life while you make believe"
    So I teleported outta there with a grin
    Met a bum with a mansion that invited me in
    Then we politiced about politics
    He mentioned def jam but I ain't acknowledge it
    I went to see a virgin with AIDS, yea I thought about smashing that
    Yea her ass was fat, so appealing
    Tattoo on her inner thigh that said "she was doin better then she was feeling"
    I think I seen shorty before, maybe in the club or something
    Maybe in VIP, but wasn't nobody there but me
    And the club was all red, and she started playing with my head
    And then I came
    Then I asked shorty what's her name and it was weird 'cause she fucked around and disappeared
    Like what a cruel joke
    Cig lit but from it was no smoke
    Flicked in the ashtray and seen Stack's face
    Slashed to a school hallway on a half day
    Was getting chased, couldn't tell by who
    Then the hallway turned into a cliff
    Screamin "piff" before I was dead
    Somehow I jumped my ass up out that bed
    Then baby girl told me in my sleep I was screaming
    So I said "that's a lie"
    She put her right hand in the sky
    And said "you was but I don't know why"
    Gotta go, goodbye..
    Publisher: THE ADMINISTRATION MP INC
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