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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