Mind Playin` Tricks 94

<br>sit alone in my four cornered room starin` at candles<br>Are we on the radio dukes?<br>Awww yeah, give it to me<br><br>Yeah, at night I can`t sleep<br>I`m tossin` and turnin`<br>I still got the candlesticks burnin`<br>It ain`t changed but it`s a different time<br>And I`m still playin` tricks with my mind<br>My mothers always stressin` that I`m livin` wrong<br>But I got my Smith and Wesson so I`m gettin` grown<br>And their lookin` at your little boys success<br>And I been thinkin`, I`m dealin` with too much stress<br>So I stay up on my p`s and q`s<br>And watch out for the G`s and fools<br>Cause the homies that I thought I had <br>See me stackin` up a grip<br>And they just started talkin` bad<br>So I stay away from outsiders<br>And when I wrote them, it makes `em open they mouth wider<br>I used to think that you was my one and only homie<br>My mind was playin` tricks on me<br>My mind was playin` tricks on me<br><br>Yeah<br><br>Dear diary I`m havin` a little trouble with my mind state<br>How many bullets would it take to change my mind? wait<br>Sometimes I want to end it but I don`t though<br>They tell me see my pastor but I don`t go<br>Cause they all be on this one street<br>So I take it on myself to thank him one deep<br>And give my money to the most needy<br>And never put it in the hands of the most greedy<br>Cause their puttin` a price tag on a man`s word<br>And it`s a fashion show, so the men flirt<br>The world is endin` so they try to make us switch fast<br>And they openin` up these churches for some quick cash<br>And usin` the money fo` they new cribs<br>While brother Johnson just got kicked out where he lived<br>I follow no man, cause man be phoney<br>My mind was playin` tricks on me<br>My mind was playin` tricks on me<br><br>Day by day it`s more impossible to cope<br>I feel like I`m the one that`s doin` dope<br>Can`t seem to keep my mind on a steady track<br>I`m all about gettin` mine so I study that<br>But it seems they want to get me<br>So I try to keep my nine millimeter wit me<br>Just in case they want to see a homies head blown<br>But I got to stay around to see my kids grown<br>I finally found a woman who could deal wit me<br>Back then I had a woman who wouldn`t real wit me<br>And now she`s back with her old lady<br>And now I got it goin` on and they sure hate me<br>Now I`m a gone and she`s alone <br>hahahaha, her mind was playin` tricks on her<br>One time for your motherfuckin` mind<br>Bringin` it back like this here <br>1-9-9-1 all the way to the 1-9-9-4 and they me Face<br>My mind was playin` tricks on me