In My Sleep-Joe Budden

[00:00.62]Baby girl told me in my sleep I was talkin [00:02.73]So it's only natural I asked her "what I said?" [00:05.62]She said she woke up when she heard [00:07.97]But she was so damn tired she couldn't make out a word [00:10.53]She said she was trying to see if eventually [00:13.13]if I would scream the name of a bird [00:15.21]I told her "that's absurd" [00:17.27]And then gave her the face like "word?!" [00:19.86]And then she replied "yeah" [00:22.00]Said "it was quite weird", said she was type scared [00:24.19]I said "that's the side effect [00:25.90]that you get when you trade bad dreams for some great nigh******ares" [00:29.06]When I close my eyes, I escape the poltergeist [00:33.39]My escape from reality just what I needed [00:35.50]Brings me to a place where shorty never cheated [00:37.72]And even if she tried and succeeded [00:39.83]In this other world I wouldn't even get heated [00:42.49]****** the details, I don't care about why [00:44.61]I'm chillin with my grandmother, she aint die [00:46.82]I was browsing online and seen Mike on that banner [00:49.04]And said "you can be like me and beat cancer" [00:51.58]Anything I touched I feel [00:53.81]Know its fiction but it seems so real [00:56.09]Was leaving out the casino with a nympho [00:58.47]Yes Ray it can be so simple [01:00.72]Here's how I avoid problem with my kin folk [01:02.98]Learn how to build me a house with no win [01:05.30]dows.. and that's when I think I saw a ribbon in the sky [01:08.74]but it wasn't from an in [01:10.09]tro... cuz where I'm at there's no rumors or gossip [01:12.52]but still got love for Miss In [01:14.35]fo... she said in my sleep I be laughing, [01:16.70]but ******t seem funny to me [01:18.70]My ice cream was 200 degrees [01:21.12]If it dripped I'd get a hole in my dungarees [01:22.85]See my animinoty is my protection [01:25.50]And me and hip hop have no connection [01:28.57]Which got me to reflecting [01:30.45]Is that why the mirror don't show my reflection [01:32.79]When I close my eyes there's no dollar [01:34.85]So we can stretch that one as an excuse [01:37.31]Of why folks do the things they do [01:39.47]Or why people act so brand new? [01:41.68]I had wings on flying outta prison with a ratchet [01:43.97]Was only there cuz someone snitched [01:46.36]No ones poor but no ones rich [01:48.51]Just my way of creeping if life's a ****** [01:50.82]Took a walk on the ceiling just to get my mind right [01:53.13]That was yesterday... so in hindsight [01:55.78]Since I was able to haul off [01:57.85]I took it as God telling my I'll never fall off [01:59.98]Got rid of the name brands and the jewelry [02:02.61]Most people just use it as medicine [02:04.85]Like it takes them somewhere they ain't never been [02:07.64]But here you better off not better then [02:09.47]Stuck in the room with an elephant [02:11.57]Open the closet and dapped up my skeleton [02:13.88]Had a convo with a man with no ears [02:15.91]And all of a sudden everything became so clear [02:18.28]Have no fear [02:19.69]I just bought a first class trip to nowhere, everybody goes there [02:22.94]But they don't stay the whole year, [02:25.09]Me I got 365 shows there [02:27.05]My girl said in my sleep I be walking, so I ask baby "where I go?" [02:32.09]She said I be walking slow, [02:34.26]She don't ever wanna get outta bed so she don't know [02:36.62]I went to see a man walking on water [02:38.91]Asked if he'd ever get things back in order [02:41.25]I been there two years over a quarter [02:43.49]But every time I open my eyes it's like torture [02:45.96]He said "please I gave you a whole other world for you [02:49.25]to go do with as you please [02:50.53]Just so you appeased mixed with a couple of signs [02:52.85]bout real life while you make believe" [02:54.97]So I teleported outta there with a grin [02:57.09]Met a bum with a mansion that invited me in [02:59.37]Then we politiced about politics [03:02.03]He mentioned def jam but I ain't acknowledge it [03:04.05]I went to see a virgin with AIDS, [03:06.34]yea I thought about sma******ng that [03:08.20]Yea her ass was fat, so appealing [03:10.23]Tattoo on her inner thigh that said [03:11.94]"she was doin better then she was feeling" [03:13.50]I think I seen shorty before, maybe in the club or something [03:17.96]Maybe in VIP, but wasn't nobody there but me [03:21.38]And the club was all red, and she started playing with my head [03:25.54]And then I came [03:27.15]Then I asked shorty whats her name and it was weird [03:29.47]cuz she ****** around and disappeared [03:31.18]Like what a cruel joke [03:33.78]Cig lit but from it was no smoke [03:36.15]Flicked in the ashtray and seen Stack's face [03:38.69]Slashed to a school hallway on a half day [03:40.79]Was getting chased, couldn't tell by who [03:42.91]Then the hallway turned into a cliff [03:45.22]Screamin "piff" before I was dead [03:47.58]Somehow I jumped my ass up out that bed [03:49.73]Then baby girl told me in my sleep I was screaming [03:52.02]So I said "that's a lie" [03:54.39]She put her right hand in the sky [03:56.63]And said "you was but I don't know why" [03:58.28]Gotta go, goodbye.. 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