[Verse 1 - joe budden]

Baby girl told me in my sleep I was talkin

So it's only natural I asked her what I said? (said)

She said she woke up when she heard

But she was so damn tired she couldn't make out a word" (out a word)

She said she was tryin to see if eventually I would scream the name of a bird (bird)

I told her that's absurd ('surd), and then gave her the face like "word?" (word)

And then she replied yeah, said it was quite weird, said she was type scared

I said "that's a side effect that you get

When you trade bad dreams for some great nightmares" ('mares)

When I close my eyes (eyes), I escaped the poltergeist

My escape from reality, just what I needed

Brings me to a place where shorty never cheated (hey!)

And even if she tried and succeeded

In this other world I wouldn't even get heated

Fuck (fuck) the details, I don't care about why

I'm chillin with my grandmother, she ain't die (she ain't die)

I was browsing online and seen mike on a banner

That said "you can be like me and beat cancer"

Anything I touched, I'd feel (feel)

No inspection but it seemed so real (real)

Was leavin out the casino with a nympho

Yes, ray it can be so simple (oh)

Here's how I arrive a 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

'cause where I'm at is no rumors or gossip but still got love for ms. in-fo

She said in my sleep I'd be laughin, but shit be funny to me (oh)

Look, my ice cream was two hundred degrees

If it dripped, I'd get a hole in my dungarees

See, my anonymity is my protection (what else?)

And me and hip-hop have no connection (what else?)

Which got me to reflectin, is that why the mirror won't show my reflection?

When I close my eyes, there's no dollars

So we can scratch that one as an excuse (or)

Or why folks do the things they do (or)

Or why people act so brand new (let's go)

I had wings on flyin out a prison with a ratchet

Was only there 'cause someone snitched

Look (look here), no one's poor but no one's rich

Just my way of creepin if life's a bitch

Took a walk on the ceiling just to get my mind right

That was yesterday (so), so in hindsight

Since I was able to haul off

I took it as god tellin me I'll never fall off (off)

Got rid of name brands in the jewelry (why?)

Most people just use it as medicine

Like it take 'em somewhere they ain't never been (but)

But here you better off not better than (oh!)

Stuck in the room with a elephant

Opened 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 (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 three hundred and sixty-five shows there

My girl said in my sleep, I'd be walkin (walkin), so I ask baby, where I go?

Uh, she said I be walkin slow

But she don't ever want to get out of bed, so she don't know

I went to see a man walkin on water (and)

Asked if he'd ever get things back in order (and)

I've been there two years, over a quarter

But everytime I open my eyes, it's like torture (torture)

He said "please, I gave you a whole 'nother world for you to go do with as you please

Just so you appeased, mixed with a couple of signs about real life while you make believe"

So I (so I), teleported out of there with a grin

Met a bum with a mansion, invited me in

Then (then), we politiced, about politics

Said somethin about def jam, I ain't acknowledge it

I went to see a virgin with aids, yeah I thought about smashin that (why?)

Yeah her ass was fat

So appealin, tattoo on her inner thigh said

"She doin better than she was feelin" (feelin)

I think I seen shorty before (like), maybe in a club or somethin

Or, maybe in vip, but wasn't nobody there but me

And the club was all red (red)

Then she started playin with my head (my head)

And then I came

Then I asked shorty, "what's her name?"

And it was weird 'cause she fucked around, disappeared (uh, 'peared)

Like what a cruel joke (look)

Cig lit but from it was no smoke

Flicked in the ash tray and seen stack's face

Flash through a school hallway on a half day

Was gettin chased, couldn't tell by who (or)

Then a hallway turned into a cliff (what else?)

Screamin piff before I was dead

Some coward chopped my ass up out that bed

Then baby girl told me in my sleep, I was screamin (screamin)

So I said that's a lie (that's a lie)

She put her right hand in the sky and said "you was, but I don't know

Why, got to go, goodbye" (goodbye, goodbye ...)