Nah what you get outta
Outta not writing your stuff down on paper
You get the more-you know the
Expression the feeling yourself
You know what you want to say
Instead of reading a paper that sounds read
It sounds narrated
Unless you wanna do it narrated
What if a dream was reality
And reality was a dream
And as complicated as it seems
If things we imagined actually happened
And real life situations was artificial
They say we only living to die
Imagine if we're already dead
Waiting to live living in hell
Trying to cross over to
Heaven we're confusing ourselves
Planet earth's like Oceans 11
We're plottin' for the getaway
When my childhood friends get sent away
To prison on their first offense
It's f**ked up but listen
We study God but don't know him
Criticize people that work on Sundays
Two jobs just to feed their kids
Well momma's scratching lottery tickets knowing
That it's just a fairy tale
Cus' we ain't gonna win
Every time that she's bubblin' in
It feels like the devil's holding a pen
(sh*t)
Don't mind me I'm just thinking again
Thinking out loud thinking the opposite of proud
Cus' I'm disappointed at my self sometimes
Self-esteem gets lower than night strippers
Hard to motivate the right rhymes
Inspired by true crimes
It's not a game it's nothing to play with
Turn it off then come back the next day
It's here to stay
Struggle that is
I'm so infatuated with knowing something
That's waiting after this life
That means what I'm thinking is right
Punch loop the beat for a minute
Moment of silence for J Dilla he on his way home
Know he see me spillin' my heart hope for it soon
Wait a minute K Dot ) you said turn it back on
Bring it back
If dreams was reality
If it was cool for you to be a casualty
The only way that you can escape poverty
Say that I'm weird
But obviously you didn't get it
When I said it the first time
You're listening too far
If you hear this part
I suggest you go back and press rewind
I fast forward to common thoughts of a human
Deep in my thoughts like Patrick Ewing in the paint
Look what I brought to my state
That they can't bring
The industry need a fix
Stick h****n needles inside politics
This is crack music
O-pi-um inside the veins of them
I don't abuse it
Capture each moment like film
Photo-shooting all my enemies moving
Direct them to a casket
Give it to 'em only if they ask for it
If they want
If they wanna see reality haha
I'm losing you again ain't I
Ain't I
The perfect candidate to represent the fifty states
Black President
They don't wanna see that
It's evident pain is pain
We only love to hate each other
That's striving for great-ness
I swear to God that we live in a Matrix
Take that blue pill then we start seeing spaceships
Kanye west-coast niggas do it the best
Bring each other down
Crab in a bucket of fit
We learn to live with it I guess
I mean dive with it since we're already dead
Trying to cross over to heaven
That's what I said the first time
Get it Now little boy I gotta sit you down
Teach you about the things that we live around
Materialistic things
That we buyin' now means nothing later
When the dream kick in
Fade me out fade me out fade me out
Fade me out fade me out fade me out
Fade me out fade me out
When the dreams was reality
And money was love
What would we do
For a buzz to maintain our sanity
Chasing the wind striving after this vanity
Traveling no direction the aim is casualty
American dream or Scarface fantasy
Kilos of coke and the arms of black families
We use to it our hearts draped in stone
A mother's dreams for her baby boy
To come back home
Cus' he out pushin' that chrome
Pursuing that cash
End another niggas dreams
When the fo-fifth blast
Now another mother screams picking out his casket
Harsh reality it seems like
It's simple mathematics it's not
It's trigonometry
Divided by some real life
And he'll do it again just to get a mill' twice
The streets mowed him
Can't make past that
It's not a dream it's reality
Look where it's at ugh
What happened in Manhattan happens all the time
In the hood conspiracy to cover up crime
No nickel and dime
One shot pettiness
I wrote it in my mind as a letter to the president
World trade happened on the world stage
Same stage look at us as some educated apes
On video stations women gyrating
Parading around mind-raping the youth
Fade me out fade me out fade me out
Fade me out fade me out fade me out
Fade me out
What if a dream was reality
And reality was a dream
And as complicated as it seems
If things we imagined actually happened
And real life situations was artificial
They say we only living to die
Imagine if we're already dead
Waiting to live living in hell
Trying to cross over to heaven
We're confusing ourselves
Planet earth's like Oceans 11
We're plottin' for the getaway
I'm the man up in this piece
You'll never see the light of da
Who the f**k d'ya think you f**kin' with
I run sh*t here you just live here
Dreams - Kendrick Lamar
