Sleep Rules Everything Around Me-Wugazi

[ti:Sleep Rules Everything Around Me] [ar:Wugazi] [al:13 Chambers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sleep Rules Everything Around Me - Wugazi [00:00.95]I grew up on the crime side the New York Times side [00:04.04]Staying alive was no jive [00:05.84]Had second hands mom's bounced on old man [00:08.70] [00:09.24]So then we moved to Shaolin land [00:11.53]A young youth yo rocking the gold tooth 'Lo goose [00:15.06]Only way I begin to G' off was drug loot [00:18.23]And let's start it like this son rolling with this one [00:21.57]And that one pulling out gats for fun [00:24.04]But it was just a dream for the teen who was a fiend [00:27.61]Started smoking woolies at sixteen [00:29.20] [00:30.02]And running up in gates and doing hits for high stakes [00:33.51]Making my way on fire escapes [00:36.05]No question I would speed for cracks and w**d [00:38.94] [00:39.49]The combination made my eyes bleed [00:41.96]No question I would flow off and try to get the dough off [00:45.55]Sticking up white boys in ball courts [00:47.89]My life got no better same damn 'Lo sweater [00:51.55]Times is rough and tough like leather [00:53.96]Figured out I went the wrong route [00:55.99]So I got with a sick tight clique and went all out [00:59.28] [00:59.82]Catching keys from across seas [01:01.76]Rolling in MPV's every week we made forty G's [01:05.84]Yo brothas respect mine or anger the Tec-9 [01:09.05]Ch-POW Move from the gate now [01:11.33] [01:13.73]I'm so tired sheep are counting me [01:18.35]No more struggle no more energy [01:23.52]It's been 22 long hard years and still struggling [01:26.11]Survival got me bugging but I'm alive on arrival [01:29.30] [01:29.81]I peep at the shape of the streets [01:31.82]And stay awake to the ways of the world cause sh*t is deep [01:34.89]A man with a dream with plans to make C R E A M [01:37.59]Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15 [01:40.53]A young buck selling drugs and such who never had much [01:43.93]Trying to get a clutch at what I could not touch [01:46.57]The court played me short now I face incarceration [01:49.17] [01:49.79]Pacin' going up state's my destination [01:52.20] [01:52.74]Handcuffed in back of a bus forty of us [01:55.74]Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough [01:58.49]But as the world turns I learned life is Hell [02:01.66]Living in the world no different from a cell [02:04.66]Everyday I escape from Jakes giving chase selling base [02:07.80] [02:08.34]Smoking bones in the staircase [02:09.84] [02:10.51]Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess [02:13.26]I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed [02:15.95]But I'm still depressed and I ask what's it worth [02:18.89] [02:19.49]Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth [02:22.12]Who explained working hard may help you maintain [02:24.63] [02:25.19]To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain [02:27.92]We got stickup kids corrupt cops and crack rocks [02:31.23]And stray shots all on the block that stays hot [02:33.81] [02:34.36]Leave it up to me while I be living proof [02:36.94]To kick the truth to the young black youth [02:39.98]But shorty's running wild smoking sess drinking beer [02:43.14]And ain't trying to hear what I'm kicking in his ear [02:45.96]Neglected for now but yo it gots to be accepted [02:49.58]That what That life is hectic [02:51.53] [02:53.11]I'm so tired sheep are counting me [02:58.09] [02:58.91]No more struggle no more energy [03:03.92] [03:04.93]No patient you can write that down [03:10.21] [03:10.83]It's all too crazy and I'm not sticking around