| Night mares of the nightI had a dream so I chased it |
| Nobody never told Me I would be lost in the matrix |
| Come on and live the life |
| Is the way that they portrayed it |
| Painted a pretty picture but the pretty picture faded, I hated it |
| And the game showed me the shadiness when I realize that my favorite rapper was |
| fakin it |
| They had me thinking it was all about that gangsta shit |
| Now I’m seeing that them niggas really ain’t the shit |
| You pay a high price trying to live that high life |
| Cashing your souls start lacking control |
| When the money get to flowing in |
| Hard to know who foe or friend |
| Everybody lookin kinda strange at me |
| Why so many haters taking aim at me |
| I figured since a nigga made a change they’d be happy |
| Make a better livin for the family, ya feel me? |
| You mean to tell me just cause I made it they wanna kill me? |
| What sort of life is this we supposed to live? |
| What in the hell have I been telling these kids, Get your money, Live it up, |
| spend it up cause you only live once, but that’s kind of a lie ya’ll |
| See, this dream of mine put me to sleep but real life started leaving me behind, |
| put a lot of time |
| You can dream if you wanna dream, but learn a lesson from me and just don’t |
| fall asleep |
| I dream, dream that I could make it at the top of the mountain and I would be |
| king, king |
| But when I woke up in the middle of my dream late night I scream, scream |
| And you really won’t believe me if I tell you everything I’ve seen, seen |
| I realize I wasn’t even chasing a dream |
| I chased a nightmare |
| I had a dream I pursued it |
| Nobody told that doing this would be foolish |
| That it would make so many decisions have me think I’m stupid |
| I could have sacrificed my friends and my family, I’m useless I’m losing it |
| I never knew what I was doing |
| I underestimated the world of satans influence |
| I figured I can get in and out of it nothing to it |
| Just tryna get what I can get out of it and keep moving, but I blew it |
| I had a very close encounter with the devil |
| And he showed me all theses elevated levels of myself |
| Took me to the highest mountain and I pedestal myself |
| Didn’t realize he had planted a rebel in myself |
| I’m like, woah, have I been sinnin all this time? Chasing the Devil, |
| living a lie? Oh my god. Fool, fool |
| Thinkin I’m leader but I really was a tool, tool |
| To figure out the truth, a nigga had to go to school |
| So I’m flipping through the scriptures and looking at the news, and the news |
| paint the picture that the scriptures are true |
| So now I’m fighting and tryna wake up, runnin, but I’m movin in slow motion, |
| hopeless |
| If, if, if I wasn’t so gone off the Hennessy and weed then I prolly wouldn’t be |
| in a deep sleep |
| Spiritually drowsy, seriously cloudy, I gotta get some good up and get fearless |
| about me |
| Promised to God if I make it out of this nightmare Alive, I’ll be a soldier for |
| the rest of my life |
| And I don’t wanna be involved with the chaos, the women, money, fame, |
| all them things I can lay off, and leave em alone |
| If I got no more momentum, I don’t need them no more, I’m not competing no more, |
| wake up, wake up |
| I dream, dream that I could make it to the top of the mountain and I would be |
| king, king |
| But when I woke up in the middle of my dream late night I scream, scream |
| And you really won’t believe me if I tell you everything I’ve seen, seen |
| I realize I wasn’t even chasing a dream |
| I chased a nightmare |
| (You can dream of you wanna dream) |
| But a learn a lesson from me and just don’t fall asleep |
| (You can, you can dream if you wanna dream) |
| I chased a nightmare |
| (You can, you can dream if you wanna dream) |
| Nightmare |
| I chased a nightmare |
| Nightmares of the night |