Joe Budden - In My Sleep lyrics
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<i>[Verse 1 - Joe Budden]</i><br>
Baby girl told me in my sleep I was talkin<br>
So it's only natural I asked her what I said? (said)<br>
She said she woke up when she heard<br>
But she was so damn tired she couldn't make out a word" (out a word)<br>
She said she was tryin to see if eventually I would scream the name of a bird (bird)<br>
I told her that's absurd ('surd), and then gave her the face like "word?" (word)<br>
And then she replied yeah, said it was quite weird, said she was type scared<br>
I said "that's a side effect that you get<br>
when you trade bad dreams for some great nightmares" ('mares)<br>
When I close my eyes (eyes), I escaped the Poltergeist<br>
my escape from reality, just what I needed<br>
Brings me to a place where shorty never cheated (hey!)<br>
And even if she tried and succeeded<br>
In this other world I wouldn't even get heated<br>
Fuck (fuck) the details, I don't care about why<br>
I'm chillin with my grandmother, she ain't die (she ain't die)<br>
I was browsing online and seen Mike on a banner<br>
That said "you can be like me and beat cancer"<br>
Anything I touched, I'd feel (feel)<br>
No inspection but it seemed so real (real)<br>
Was leavin out the casino with a nympho<br>
Yes, Ray it can be so simple (oh)<br>
Here's how I arrive a problem with my kin folk<br>
Learn how to build me a house with no win-dows<br>
And that's when I think I saw a ribbon in the sky but it wasn't from an in-tro<br>
'Cause where I'm at is no rumors or gossip but still got love for Ms. In-fo<br>
She said in my sleep I'd be laughin, but shit be funny to me (oh)<br>
Look, my ice cream was two hundred degrees<br>
if it dripped, I'd get a hole in my dungarees<br>
See, my anonymity is my protection (what else?)<br>
and me and hip-hop have no connection (what else?)<br>
Which got me to reflectin, is that why the mirror won't show my reflection?<br>
When I close my eyes, there's no dollars<br>
so we can scratch that one as an excuse (or)<br>
Or why folks do the things they do (or)<br>
or why people act so brand new (let's go)<br>
I had wings on flyin out a prison with a ratchet<br>
was only there 'cause someone snitched<br>
Look (look here), no one's poor but no one's rich<br>
just my way of creepin if life's a bitch<br>
Took a walk on the ceiling just to get my mind right<br>
That was yesterday (so), so in hindsight<br>
Since I was able to haul off<br>
I took it as God tellin me I'll never fall off (off)<br>
Got rid of name brands in the jewelry (why?)<br>
most people just use it as medicine<br>
Like it take 'em somewhere they ain't never been (but)<br>
but here you better off not better than (oh!)<br>
Stuck in the room with a elephant<br>
Opened the closet and dapped up my skeleton<br>
Had a convo with a man with no ears<br>
And all of a sudden everything became so clear (clear)<br>
Have no fear, I just bought a first class trip to nowhere - everybody goes there<br>
But they don't stay the whole year, me? I got three hundred and sixty-five shows there<br>
My girl said in my sleep, I'd be walkin (walkin), so I ask baby, where I go?<br>
Uh, she said I be walkin slow<br>
but she don't ever want to get out of bed, so she don't know<br>
I went to see a man walkin on water (and)<br>
Asked if he'd ever get things back in order (and)<br>
I've been there two years, over a quarter<br>
But everytime I open my eyes, it's like torture (torture)<br>
He said "please, I gave you a whole 'nother world for you to go do with as you please<br>
Just so you appeased, mixed with a couple of signs about real life while you make believe"<br>
So I (so I), teleported out of there with a grin<br>
Met a bum with a mansion, invited me in<br>
Then (then), we politiced, about politics<br>
Said somethin about Def Jam, I ain't acknowledge it<br>
I went to see a virgin with AIDS, yeah I thought about smashin that (why?)<br>
yeah her ass was fat<br>
So appealin, tattoo on her inner thigh said<br>
"she doin better than she was feelin" (feelin)<br>
I think I seen shorty before (like), maybe in a club or somethin<br>
Or, maybe in VIP, but wasn't nobody there but me<br>
And the club was all red (red)<br>
Then she started playin with my head (my head)<br>
And then I came<br>
Then I asked shorty, "what's her name?"<br>
And it was weird 'cause she fucked around, disappeared (uh, 'peared)<br>
like what a cruel joke (look)<br>
Cig lit but from it was no smoke<br>
Flicked in the ash tray and seen Stack's face<br>
Flash through a school hallway on a half day<br>
Was gettin chased, couldn't tell by who (or)<br>
Then a hallway turned into a cliff (what else?)<br>
Screamin piff before I was dead<br>
Some coward chopped my ass up out that bed<br>
Then baby girl told me in my sleep, I was screamin (screamin)<br>
so I said that's a lie (that's a lie)<br>
She put her right hand in the sky and said "you was, but I don't know <br>
why, got to go, goodbye" (goodbye, goodbye ...)<br>
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