My Mind Playin' Tricks on Me - Geto Boys

I sit alone in my four cornered room staring at candles

Oh that sh*t is on

Let me drop some sh*t like this here

Real smooth

At night I can't sleep I toss and turn

Candle sticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned

Four walls just staring at a n**ga

I'm paranoid sleeping with my finger on the trigga

My momma's always stressing I ain't living right

But I ain't going out without a fight

See everytime my eyes close

I start sweating and blood starts coming out my nose

It's somebody watching the AK

But I don't know who it is so I'm watching my back

I can see him when I'm deep in the covers

When I awake I don't see the motherf**ker

He owns a black hat like I own

A black suit and a cane like my own

Some might say Take a chill B

But f**k that sh*t there's a n**ga trying to kill me

I'm popping in a clip when the wind blows

Every twenty seconds got me peeping out my window

Investigating the joint for traps checking my telephone for taps

I'm staring at the woman on the corner

It's f**ked up when your mind is playing tricks on you

I make big money I drive big cars

Everybody know me it's like I'm a movie star

But late at night something ain't right

I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's head lights

Is it that fool that I ran off the block

Or is it that n**ga last week that I shot

Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars

Thought he had 'caine but it was gold medal flour

Reached under my seat grabbed my popper for the suckers

Ain't no use to be lying I was scareder than a motherf**ker

Hooked a left into Popeye's and beared down quick

If it's going down let's get this sh*t over with

Here they come just like I figured

I got my hand on the motherf**king trigger

What I saw'll make your a** start giggling

Three blind crippled and crazy senior citizens

I live by the sword I take my boys everywhere I go

Because I'm paranoid

I keep looking over my shoulder and peeping around corners

My mind is playing tricks on me

Day by day it's more impossible to cope

I feel like I'm the one that's doing d**e

Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous

Every Sunday morning I'm in the service

Praying for forgiveness

And trying to find an exit out of the business

I know the Lord is looking at me

But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy

I often drift when I drive

Having fatal thoughts of suicide

Bang and get it over with

And then I'm worry free but that's bullsh*t

I got a little boy to look after

And if I died then my child would be a bastard

I had a woman down with me

But to me it seemed like she was down to get me

She helped me out in this sh*t

But to me she was just another b**ch

Now she's back with her mother

Now I'm realizing that I love her

Now I'm feeling lonely

My mind is playing tricks on me

This year Halloween fell on a weekend

Me and Geto Boys are trick or treating

Robbing little kids for bags

Till a law man got behind our a**

So we speeded up the pace

Took a look back and he was right before our face

He'd be in for a squabble no doubt

So I swung and hit the n**ga in his mouth

He was going down we figga'd

But this wasn't no ordinary n**ga

He stood about six or seven feet

Now that's the n**ga I'd been seeing in my sleep

So we triple teamed on him

Dropping them motherf**king beads on him

The more I swung the more blood flew

Then he disappeared and my

Boys disappeared too

Then I felt just like a fiend

It wasn't even close to Halloween

It was dark as f**k on the streets

My hands were all bloody from punching on the concrete

Godd*mn homie

My mind is playing tricks on me