Dreaming
N.O.R.E. feat. Mayday & Tech 9 Lyrics

Yea, reminisce nigga
Let's look back and reflect.

Be blessed
I hope you've been fortunate.

Dreamin' but I don't think I'm a sleep tonight
I'm daydreaming and don't feel like sleeping tonight.

I'm livin' the dreamin'
I'm living in my dream world.

This just can't be life
It feels too surreal to be real life.

See I would wake up on the cold nights, half a pack left
I used to wake up during the cold nights, with half a pack of cigarettes remaining.

Pour like try to grab us while we roll dice
The police would try to catch us while we gambled.

Scatter, back to the block in the hour
We would quickly disperse and go back to the block within an hour.

Just bout time to change clothes in the shower
It was almost time to change clothes, so I showered.

Shit I'm shot by the dough pad,
I'm addicted to making money.

Heroin stashed in the broke ad, gun by the moped
I hide heroin in rundown places and keep a gun near my moped.

Fingerprints in the last weapon I threw away
My fingerprints are on the firearm I threw away.

So why are you away 9 to 5 to a day?
Why are you working nine to five when you could be making money like me?

I will usually, lay by the basement store
I often hang out by the basement store.

Sling raw by the barber shop
I sell drugs right next to the barber shop.

Jerry's getting cut, stash my work there
While Jerry is getting a haircut, I stash my drugs there.

As long as getting Jerry cut I could work there
As long as I can leave my drugs there while Jerry gets a haircut, I can keep selling.

Okay, been asleep and half awake
I've been asleep and half awake.

Trying to direct but now I feel em at the matinee
I'm trying to direct my life, but it feels like I'm just watching a movie.

Look ma I'm on the screen, I mean to beat the pack away
I'm on the screen and want to outdo everyone.

So I can share the meaning of get up and get the lap relayed
I want to teach people to work hard and pass the baton.

Relate relate, get em to give me the cash I made
I want people to relate to my story and pay me for it.

Getting into a relaxing place
I'm trying to relax.

Let me just get out my pack and play
Let me grab a pack of cigarettes and play some music.

To the gods of my private little dreamscape
To the gods of my private world of dreams.

I see you sleepin out so long even the sheep skate
You've been sleeping so long, even the sheep have given up on trying to count you.

Each break, each melody calls
Every break and melody is calling out to me.

Is all the jealous fucks who relish those who literally rock shit
Jealous people who admire successful people who actually accomplish things like me.

Knock knock, get ready to drop
Get ready to hear a knock and for things to change drastically.

Kick the hands of time,
Make time go by faster.

Damn you wind it right when the clock tics
Why do you always wind up correctly when the clock ticks?

Okay, nobody listening
No one is paying attention.

Cause a baller let a baller ball and his bottom he brought it
A successful person let another successful person succeed and benefit from it.

But he bro into smaller bombing, better bring this bout it Blitzen
But he broke it down into smaller and smaller bits, better bring the delivery quickly.

All the baller shit is bothering, it's about Benjamin's product
All of the flashy things successful people do are a little annoying.

You're bottom pimpin', just borrowing, just balling bitch
You're creepily trying to take advantage of others and only pretending to be successful.

I annihilated, molly no longer dilated
I got rid of my addiction to drugs.

I fly away, since high away this is how I made it
I got away from my past and this is how I became successful.

I get violent when mine is spend on IRS to silence something crying
I get angry when I have to pay the IRS to make sure nobody knows about my illegal activities.

I get you sick to try and make it
I'm willing to do whatever it takes to be successful.

Man I'm dreaming, I can't believe it
I'm just dreaming and can't believe what's happening.

Making it hella hella but everybody need it
I'm making a lot of money, but everyone wants it.

I feed it to so many sources til I'm depleted
I give money to so many people that I'm running out myself.

Feeling I'm really beat up with greed, I can't conceive it
I feel like I'm being consumed by greed and can't understand it.

Pursuit of Happiness he'll be writin in class rooms
Someone will write about my pursuit of happiness in classrooms.

Falling asleep, only the block assholes
Only the bad people are still awake at night on the block.

Grew up a crash test dummy, no fastener
I was like a test subject growing up and had no safety nets.

Father was down so long, she called bastard
My dad was down and out for so long that my mom called him a bastard.

Faster pussycat, ain't no slowing down
I need to move quickly and not slow down.

Drip myself in a corner in order to make it out
I need to hide in a corner to avoid being caught.

Shout may day now, get faded now
I'm panicking and need to calm down.

Ink on my fingers, dead ringer for the sing up of operds
I have ink on my fingers and it looks like I've been writing music lyrics.

While they sleep straight til they earns
While they sleep all night and only make money during the day.

Brown liquor in my stomach making my chest burn
Drinking alcohol is making my chest hurt.

They heard I count sheep for fomo
They heard that I can't sleep and count sheep due to FOMO (fear of missing out).

Fuck I've got a message from Noreaga
Oh no, I've received a message from Noreaga (a well-known rapper).

Said wake em up bro
He told me to wake up and take action.