My Mind Playin' Tricks on Me-Geto Boys

[ti:My Mind Playin' Tricks on Me] [ar:Geto Boys] [al:The 100 Best HipHop Songs Ever] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Mind Playin' Tricks on Me - Geto Boys [00:00.78]I sit alone in my four cornered room staring at candles [00:03.38] [00:05.40]Oh that sh*t is on [00:06.09] [00:07.20]Let me drop some sh*t like this here [00:08.38] [00:09.20]Real smooth [00:10.33]At night I can't sleep I toss and turn [00:12.83]Candle sticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned [00:15.55]Four walls just staring at a n**ga [00:18.09]I'm paranoid sleeping with my finger on the trigga [00:20.78]My momma's always stressing I ain't living right [00:23.69]But I ain't going out without a fight [00:26.08]See everytime my eyes close [00:28.30]I start sweating and blood starts coming out my nose [00:31.00]It's somebody watching the AK [00:33.52]But I don't know who it is so I'm watching my back [00:36.67]I can see him when I'm deep in the covers [00:38.72]When I awake I don't see the motherf**ker [00:41.39]He owns a black hat like I own [00:43.74]A black suit and a cane like my own [00:46.29]Some might say Take a chill B [00:48.48]But f**k that sh*t there's a n**ga trying to kill me [00:51.58]I'm popping in a clip when the wind blows [00:54.08]Every twenty seconds got me peeping out my window [00:56.56]Investigating the joint for traps checking my telephone for taps [01:01.09] [01:01.66]I'm staring at the woman on the corner [01:04.18]It's f**ked up when your mind is playing tricks on you [01:07.31] [01:21.64]I make big money I drive big cars [01:23.70]Everybody know me it's like I'm a movie star [01:26.42]But late at night something ain't right [01:28.87]I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's head lights [01:31.70]Is it that fool that I ran off the block [01:34.41]Or is it that n**ga last week that I shot [01:36.87]Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars [01:39.39]Thought he had 'caine but it was gold medal flour [01:41.71]Reached under my seat grabbed my popper for the suckers [01:44.30]Ain't no use to be lying I was scareder than a motherf**ker [01:47.33]Hooked a left into Popeye's and beared down quick [01:50.48]If it's going down let's get this sh*t over with [01:53.03]Here they come just like I figured [01:55.24]I got my hand on the motherf**king trigger [01:57.73]What I saw'll make your a** start giggling [02:00.46]Three blind crippled and crazy senior citizens [02:02.92]I live by the sword I take my boys everywhere I go [02:06.82]Because I'm paranoid [02:07.96]I keep looking over my shoulder and peeping around corners [02:11.22]My mind is playing tricks on me [02:13.55] [02:28.38]Day by day it's more impossible to cope [02:30.10] [02:31.14]I feel like I'm the one that's doing d**e [02:33.70]Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous [02:36.27]Every Sunday morning I'm in the service [02:38.53] [02:39.29]Praying for forgiveness [02:40.38] [02:41.34]And trying to find an exit out of the business [02:43.98]I know the Lord is looking at me [02:46.27]But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy [02:48.55] [02:49.62]I often drift when I drive [02:51.16] [02:51.93]Having fatal thoughts of suicide [02:53.62] [02:54.67]Bang and get it over with [02:56.15] [02:56.75]And then I'm worry free but that's bullsh*t [02:59.34]I got a little boy to look after [03:01.75]And if I died then my child would be a bastard [03:04.20]I had a woman down with me [03:06.78]But to me it seemed like she was down to get me [03:09.77]She helped me out in this sh*t [03:11.33] [03:12.13]But to me she was just another b**ch [03:14.35]Now she's back with her mother [03:16.15] [03:16.84]Now I'm realizing that I love her [03:19.97]Now I'm feeling lonely [03:21.44] [03:22.49]My mind is playing tricks on me [03:24.70] [03:40.25]This year Halloween fell on a weekend [03:42.82]Me and Geto Boys are trick or treating [03:45.06]Robbing little kids for bags [03:47.21] [03:47.72]Till a law man got behind our a** [03:49.77] [03:50.42]So we speeded up the pace [03:52.76]Took a look back and he was right before our face [03:55.57]He'd be in for a squabble no doubt [03:57.90]So I swung and hit the n**ga in his mouth [04:00.50]He was going down we figga'd [04:02.95]But this wasn't no ordinary n**ga [04:04.95] [04:05.64]He stood about six or seven feet [04:08.19]Now that's the n**ga I'd been seeing in my sleep [04:10.68]So we triple teamed on him [04:13.10]Dropping them motherf**king beads on him [04:15.77]The more I swung the more blood flew [04:18.46]Then he disappeared and my [04:19.57]Boys disappeared too [04:21.09]Then I felt just like a fiend [04:23.50]It wasn't even close to Halloween [04:25.94]It was dark as f**k on the streets [04:28.33]My hands were all bloody from punching on the concrete [04:31.27]Godd*mn homie [04:33.09] [04:34.40]My mind is playing tricks on me