The Game - Monsters In My Head Lyrics
[Verse 1]I'm sitting here watching my daughter being bornFeel like I should thank God that nothing went wrongBack in my days I was headed straight for the graveyardRunning from school cause enemies never stay farWear my colors watching colors chasing after my older brothersCause they was always into shit, good thing we had different mothersPlaying football in the streets with the homiesAnd local drug dealers kicking back making money cause the crack fiendWas always there so I start selling that cane cause nobody never caredMama at the post office working that late night shiftTaking care of my sisters cause my daddy wasn't shitSweating over the stove and on a school clothesOpen the refrigerator like where did the food go?Trying to do whatever I can to be a man, hope you understandEven when shit goes wrong it's part of God's plan, Amen[Chorus]Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Lord my soul to keepWake me up before I'm deadDon't bury me with monsters in my head, yeahMonsters in my head, with monsters in my headUnderneath the bed, underneath the bed[Verse 2]Laying here staring at this Doggystyle poster on my wallBanging Snoop Dogg spinning this basketball, what the ***** is going on?In a nigga head, all of my homies gone to jail, or they end up deadGot my first tattoo tear when I was 19, chasing a pipe dreamsChrenshaw boulevard chilling, that was the night sceneAnd like the movies, niggas act a foolWhen you pushing a beemer, who gives a ***** about a School?Mom's seta curfew, but I was breaking all the rulesKicked a nigga out the house so I started forming my crewGetting a little bigger on my own, in the 12 grade crips scheming on meCause they know my trap self made, trying to get by or getting highThat's how I survived, be a leader not a follower, that's how them cowards diePay 'em no mind but keep my chrome to the end of timeFeeling like no nigga can see me I think they're going blind[Chorus]Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Lord my soul to keepWake me up before I'm deadDon't bury me with monsters in my head, yeahMonsters in my head, with monsters in my headUnderneath the bed, underneath the bed[Verse 3]Seemed like just yesterday a nigga was only 21Showing the little homies how to use a *****ing gunNow look what I become, nigga was on the runFrom the coptom slums, they right, like father like sonBut I'm missing them days when I couldn't roll up a bluntBust the windows out of cars just to only drive it onceYeah them was the days but now a nigga getting paidPouring down rose for my niggas in the graveMy nigga Big Will and my homie P DFeel like yesterday we was just running in the streetsAnd I swear to God funny how the time flyAnd the only thing certain is that we all dieSo let your soul fly[Chorus]Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Lord my soul to keepWake me up before I'm deadDon't bury me with monsters in my head, yeahMonsters in my head, with monsters in my headUnderneath the bed, underneath the bed
