Now I Lay Joe Budden

[Intro]
I'd like to welcome everybody
To the Padded Room

[Verse 1]
"Pump it up, you came to get it crunk
A dame and shit and drunk, you came to get it on"
That's when it all got started (I mean)
Back then, I wasn't so cold-hearted (Come on)
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 endanger myself
Maybe it was just to entertain myself
I don't need help, I could change myself
Fuck y'all, I ain't gotta 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

[Refrain]
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 I
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, then I
I pray the Lord my soul to take, I mean