Dreams-Kendrick Lamar

[ti:Dreams] [ar:Kendrick Lamar] [al:Compton State of Mind] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.49]Nah what you get outta [00:01.59]Outta not writing your stuff down on paper [00:03.67]You get the more-you know the [00:05.51]Expression the feeling yourself [00:07.26]You know what you want to say [00:08.38]Instead of reading a paper that sounds read [00:10.52]It sounds narrated [00:11.67]Unless you wanna do it narrated [00:13.10] [00:24.81]What if a dream was reality [00:25.99] [00:26.99]And reality was a dream [00:28.58]And as complicated as it seems [00:30.16]If things we imagined actually happened [00:32.08] [00:32.61]And real life situations was artificial [00:34.28] [00:35.07]They say we only living to die [00:36.87]Imagine if we're already dead [00:38.19]Waiting to live living in hell [00:40.38]Trying to cross over to [00:41.71]Heaven we're confusing ourselves [00:42.54] [00:43.12]Planet earth's like Oceans 11 [00:44.26] [00:44.91]We're plottin' for the getaway [00:46.31]When my childhood friends get sent away [00:48.14]To prison on their first offense [00:50.11]It's f**ked up but listen [00:51.42]We study God but don't know him [00:53.04]Criticize people that work on Sundays [00:55.30]Two jobs just to feed their kids [00:57.32]Well momma's scratching lottery tickets knowing [00:59.89]That it's just a fairy tale [01:01.33]Cus' we ain't gonna win [01:02.45]Every time that she's bubblin' in [01:04.18]It feels like the devil's holding a pen [01:06.25](sh*t) [01:06.88]Don't mind me I'm just thinking again [01:08.82]Thinking out loud thinking the opposite of proud [01:11.57]Cus' I'm disappointed at my self sometimes [01:13.94]Self-esteem gets lower than night strippers [01:16.33]Hard to motivate the right rhymes [01:17.96] [01:18.80]Inspired by true crimes [01:20.55]It's not a game it's nothing to play with [01:22.71]Turn it off then come back the next day [01:24.73]It's here to stay [01:25.78]Struggle that is [01:27.18]I'm so infatuated with knowing something [01:29.25]That's waiting after this life [01:30.54]That means what I'm thinking is right [01:32.22]Punch loop the beat for a minute [01:34.10]Moment of silence for J Dilla he on his way home [01:36.91]Know he see me spillin' my heart hope for it soon [01:39.46]Wait a minute K Dot ) you said turn it back on [01:41.91]Bring it back [01:42.79]If dreams was reality [01:43.80] [01:44.42]If it was cool for you to be a casualty [01:46.89]The only way that you can escape poverty [01:48.84] [01:49.37]Say that I'm weird [01:50.45]But obviously you didn't get it [01:52.04]When I said it the first time [01:53.63]You're listening too far [01:54.84]If you hear this part [01:56.06]I suggest you go back and press rewind [01:58.53]I fast forward to common thoughts of a human [02:01.38]Deep in my thoughts like Patrick Ewing in the paint [02:03.63]Look what I brought to my state [02:05.11]That they can't bring [02:06.53] [02:07.04]The industry need a fix [02:08.74]Stick h****n needles inside politics [02:10.92]This is crack music [02:11.88] [02:12.67]O-pi-um inside the veins of them [02:15.05]I don't abuse it [02:16.03]Capture each moment like film [02:17.50]Photo-shooting all my enemies moving [02:19.03] [02:19.62]Direct them to a casket [02:20.99]Give it to 'em only if they ask for it [02:23.50]If they want [02:24.05] [02:24.65]If they wanna see reality haha [02:27.30]I'm losing you again ain't I [02:29.14]Ain't I [02:29.94]The perfect candidate to represent the fifty states [02:31.75] [02:32.29]Black President [02:33.09]They don't wanna see that [02:34.57]It's evident pain is pain [02:36.61]We only love to hate each other [02:38.19]That's striving for great-ness [02:39.39] [02:39.91]I swear to God that we live in a Matrix [02:42.27]Take that blue pill then we start seeing spaceships [02:44.58] [02:45.17]Kanye west-coast niggas do it the best [02:48.25]Bring each other down [02:49.37]Crab in a bucket of fit [02:51.08]We learn to live with it I guess [02:53.26]I mean dive with it since we're already dead [02:56.31]Trying to cross over to heaven [02:57.63] [02:58.20]That's what I said the first time [03:00.13]Get it Now little boy I gotta sit you down [03:03.43]Teach you about the things that we live around [03:05.47] [03:05.98]Materialistic things [03:07.35]That we buyin' now means nothing later [03:09.28]When the dream kick in [03:10.53]Fade me out fade me out fade me out [03:12.60]Fade me out fade me out fade me out [03:14.48]Fade me out fade me out [03:15.65] [03:16.26]When the dreams was reality [03:17.17]And money was love [03:18.21]What would we do [03:19.00]For a buzz to maintain our sanity [03:20.70] [03:21.43]Chasing the wind striving after this vanity [03:23.47]Traveling no direction the aim is casualty [03:25.93] [03:26.62]American dream or Scarface fantasy [03:28.33] [03:29.18]Kilos of coke and the arms of black families [03:31.64]We use to it our hearts draped in stone [03:33.89]A mother's dreams for her baby boy [03:35.45]To come back home [03:36.47]Cus' he out pushin' that chrome [03:37.97]Pursuing that cash [03:38.98]End another niggas dreams [03:40.27]When the fo-fifth blast [03:41.66]Now another mother screams picking out his casket [03:44.07]Harsh reality it seems like [03:46.08]It's simple mathematics it's not [03:47.61]It's trigonometry [03:48.29]Divided by some real life [03:49.74]And he'll do it again just to get a mill' twice [03:52.59]The streets mowed him [03:53.73]Can't make past that [03:54.72]It's not a dream it's reality [03:55.94]Look where it's at ugh [03:57.72]What happened in Manhattan happens all the time [03:59.91]In the hood conspiracy to cover up crime [04:02.10] [04:02.61]No nickel and dime [04:03.88]One shot pettiness [04:04.88]I wrote it in my mind as a letter to the president [04:07.30] [04:07.87]World trade happened on the world stage [04:10.23]Same stage look at us as some educated apes [04:12.46] [04:13.20]On video stations women gyrating [04:14.84] [04:15.76]Parading around mind-raping the youth [04:17.78] [04:18.38]Fade me out fade me out fade me out [04:20.21]Fade me out fade me out fade me out [04:22.47]Fade me out [04:23.28]What if a dream was reality [04:25.11]And reality was a dream [04:26.81]And as complicated as it seems [04:28.55]If things we imagined actually happened [04:30.20] [04:30.75]And real life situations was artificial [04:32.42] [04:33.25]They say we only living to die [04:35.11]Imagine if we're already dead [04:36.67]Waiting to live living in hell [04:38.61]Trying to cross over to heaven [04:39.98]We're confusing ourselves [04:41.01]Planet earth's like Oceans 11 [04:42.96]We're plottin' for the getaway [04:44.33]I'm the man up in this piece [04:45.41] [04:47.47]You'll never see the light of da [04:48.62]Who the f**k d'ya think you f**kin' with [04:50.21] [04:51.86]I run sh*t here you just live here [04:53.72]Dreams - Kendrick Lamar