In My Sleep

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 aint 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... cuz 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 cuz 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 whats her name and it was weird cuz 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..