Now I Lay Lyrics - Joe Budden

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I'd like to welcome everybody to the padded room...

Uh pump it up you came to get it crunk
A dame to get her drunk you came to get it on
That's when it all got started (i mean)
Back then i wasn't so cold-hearted (c'mon)
With every stanza came an extravaganza
For every question he got one less answer
I was tryin to be more than cool
Nah it was before that maybe bored in school
That was back when i would wanna danger myself
Maybe it was just to entertain myself
I don't need help i could change myself
Fuck y'all ain't gotta explain myself
Death's around the corner i can hear his footsteps
Does he think that i'm the only nigga in the hood left
So tell any listener of mine
For 28 years been a prisoner of the mind am i

[chorus: joe budden]
Now i lay me down to sleep
(and i) i pray the lord my soul to keep
(if i) if i should die before i wake
(then what?) i pray the lord my soul to take
(i mean) now i lay me down to sleep
(and i) i pray the lord my soul to keep
(if i) if i should die before i wake
I pray the lord my soul to take

[joe budden]
Look welcome everybody intraverted
Of self but claimed center
Even when he can win that nigga won't surrender
Bull's fault put the wheels in motion
I felt every emotion except devotion
Message in a bottle in the bottom of the ocean
But i can't swim damnit i can't win uh
So i don't care how you rate me
It'll take a long time to evaluate me
So if this be the last time you hear me (nigga)
Just know i got a loved one near me (nigga)
Please don't cry let her eye get teary
A nigga good finally i'm somewhere care-free
Past is frightenin but the future's scary
And i'm gettin to the point that i fear me
In a class all alone don't compare me
But i blame god this is where he steered me i mean

[chorus]

[joe budden]
Look they tell me the eyes is the
Windows to a man's soul
What you happen to see a nigga can't con-trol
... and i've turned a deaf ear
To any nigga anybody that'll get my head clear
Why shake the dice if you never gon' roll 'em?
I told 'em that the straight jacket can't hold him
I ain't psycho don't belittle me now
It's just a title cause they couldn't figure me out
If you give a damn when xxxx hits the fan
Please know anything i ever did a nigga planned
Tryin to better high as ever
Since i learned how to lie to a lie detector
Still i'm damaged
Say if you stay in that boat long
Enough you see where the land is
So i'm right where i need to be
Please believe it believe it please
Let's get on our knees

[chorus]

[outro: joe budden]
One mo' 'gin c'mon...
Follow me let's go ohhhh!
One mo' 'gin ohhhh!
Mic check one-two one-two
Can anybody hear me?
Soul to keep if i should die before i wake
I pray the lord my soul to - uh
Follow me c'mon uhh yeah

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