Now I Lay Lyrics - Padded Room - Joe Budden

I'd like to welcome everybody to the bedroom 

Pump it up if you came to get it krunk 

With a dame and shit that's drunk 

You came to get it on 

That's when it all got started, I mean 

Back then I wasn't so cold hearted 

With every stanza came an extravaganza 

For every question he got one less answer 

I was tryin' to be more than cool 

Nah, it was before that, maybe boarding school 

That was back when I would want to danger myself 

Maybe it was just to entertain myself 

I don't need help, I could change myself 

Fuck y'all, I ain't got to explain myself 

Death's around the corner, I could hear his footsteps 

Does he think that I'm the only nigga in the hood left? 

So tell any listener of mine 

For twenty eight years been a prisoner of the mind of mine 

Now I lay me down to sleep and I 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I 

If I should die before I wake, then what 

I pray the Lord my soul to take, I mean 

Now I lay me down to sleep and I 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I 

If I should die before I wake 

I pray the Lord my soul to take 

Welcome everybody into the brain of a self proclaimed sinner 

Even when he can't win, that nigga won't surrender 

Bulls fault, put the wheels in motion 

I felt every emotion except devotion 

Message in a bottle in the bottom of the ocean 

But I can't swim, damn it I can't win 

So I don't care how you rate me 

It'd take a long time to evaluate me 

So if this be the last time you hear me 

Just know I got a loved one near me 

Please don't cry, let a eye get teary 

A nigga good, finally I'm somewhere care free 

Past is frightenin' but the futures scary 

And I'm gettin' to the point that I fear me 

In a class all alone, don't compare me 

But a, blame God, this is where he steered me 

Now I lay me down to sleep and I 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I 

If I should die before I wake, then what 

I pray the Lord my soul to take, I mean 

Now I lay me down to sleep and I 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I 

If I should die before I wake 

I pray the Lord my soul to take 

They tell me that eyes is the window to a mans soul 

So if you happen to see a nigga gain control 

And I turned to deaf ear 

To any nigga anybody that'll get my head clear 

Why shake the dice if you never gon' roll? 

I told 'em that the straight-jacket can't hold 'em 

I ain't psycho, don't belittle me now 

It's just the title 'cause they couldn't figure me out 

If you give a damn when shit hits the fan 

Please know anything' I ever did a nigga planned 

Tryin' to [Incomprehensible], high as ever 

So learned how to lie to a lie detector 

Still I'm damaged 

They say if you stay in that boat long enough 

You'll see where the land is 

So I'm right where I need to be 

Please believe it, believe it, please 

Let's get on our knee's 

Now I lay me down to sleep and I 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I 

If I should die before I wake, then what 

I pray the Lord my soul to take, I mean 

Now I lay me down to sleep and I 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I 

If I should die before I wake 

I pray the Lord my soul to take 

Follow me, let's go