Lyrics Chasing Nightmares - Krayzie Bone

Chasing Nightmares

Night mares of the night\nI had a dream so I chased it\nNobody never told me I would be lost in the matrix\nCome on and live the life\nIs the way that they portrayed it\nPainted a pretty picture but the pretty picture faded, I hated it\nAnd the game showed me the shadiness when I realize that my favorite rapper was\nfakin it\nThey had me thinking it was all about that gangsta shit\nNow I’m seeing that them niggas really ain’t the shit\nYou pay a high price trying to live that high life\nCashing your souls start lacking control\nWhen the money get to flowing in\nHard to know who foe or friend\nEverybody lookin kinda strange at me\nWhy so many haters taking aim at me\nI figured since a nigga made a change they’d be happy\nMake a better livin for the family, ya feel me?\nYou mean to tell me just cause I made it they wanna kill me?\nWhat sort of life is this we supposed to live?\nWhat in the hell have I been telling these kids,\nGet your money, Live it up, spend it up cause you only live once,\nbut that’s kind of a lie ya’ll\nSee, this dream of mine put me to sleep but real life started leaving me behind,\nput a lot of time\nYou can dream if you wanna dream, but learn a lesson from me and just don’t\nfall asleep\nI dream, dream that I could make it at the top of the mountain and I would be\nking, king\nBut when I woke up in the middle of my dream late night I scream, scream\nAnd you really won’t believe me if I tell you everything I’ve seen, seen\nI realize I wasn’t even chasing a dream\nI chased a nightmare\nI had a dream I pursued it\nNobody told that doing this would be foolish\nThat it would make so many decisions have me think I’m stupid\nI could have sacrificed my friends and my family, I’m useless I’m losing it\nI never knew what I was doing\nI underestimated the world of satans influence\nI figured I can get in and out of it nothing to it\nJust tryna get what I can get out of it and keep moving, but I blew it\nI had a very close encounter with the devil\nAnd he showed me all theses elevated levels of myself\nTook me to the highest mountain and I pedestal myself\nDidn’t realize he had planted a rebel in myself\nI’m like, woah, have I been sinnin all this time?\nChasing the Devil, living a lie? Oh my god. Fool, fool\nThinkin I’m leader but I really was a tool, tool\nTo figure out the truth, a nigga had to go to school\nSo I’m flipping through the scriptures and looking at the news, and the news\npaint the picture that the scriptures are true\nSo now I’m fighting and tryna wake up, runnin, but I’m movin in slow motion,\nhopeless\nIf, if, if I wasn’t so gone off the Hennessy and weed then I prolly wouldn’t be\nin a deep sleep\nSpiritually drowsy, seriously cloudy, I gotta get some good up and get fearless\nabout me\nPromised to God if I make it out of this nightmare Alive, I’ll be a soldier for\nthe rest of my life\nAnd I don’t wanna be involved with the chaos, the women, money, fame,\nall them things I can lay off, and leave em alone\nIf I got no more momentum, I don’t need them no more, I’m not competing no more,\nwake up, wake up\nI dream, dream that I could make it to the top of the mountain and I would be\nking, king\nBut when I woke up in the middle of my dream late night I scream, scream\nAnd you really won’t believe me if I tell you everything I’ve seen, seen\nI realize I wasn’t even chasing a dream\nI chased a nightmare\n(You can dream of you wanna dream)\nBut a learn a lesson from me and just don’t fall asleep\n(You can, you can dream if you wanna dream)\nI chased a nightmare\n(You can, you can dream if you wanna dream)\nNightmare\nI chased a nightmare\nNightmares of the night