[00:00:00] Mind Playin' Tricks - Geto Boys [00:00:00] I sit alone in my four cornered room [00:00:02] Staring at candles [00:00:05] Oh that sh*t is on heh [00:00:07] Let me drop some sh*t like this here [00:00:08] Real smooth [00:00:10] At night I can't sleep I toss and turn [00:00:12] Candle sticks in the dark visions of bodies being burned [00:00:15] Four walls just staring at a ni**a [00:00:18] I'm paranoid sleeping with my finger on the trigger [00:00:21] My mother's always stressing I ain't living right [00:00:23] But I ain't going out without a fight [00:00:26] See everytime my eyes close [00:00:27] I start sweating and blood starts coming out my nose [00:00:31] It's somebody watchin' the Ak' [00:00:33] But I don't know who it is so I'm watching my back [00:00:36] I can see him when I'm deep in the covers [00:00:38] When I awake I don't see the motherf**ker [00:00:41] He owns a black hat like I own [00:00:43] A black suit and a cane like my own [00:00:46] Some might say take a chill B [00:00:48] But f**k that sh*t there's a ni**a trying to kill me [00:00:51] I'm pumping in the clip when the wind blows [00:00:53] Every twenty seconds got me peeping out my window [00:00:56] Investigating the joint for traps [00:00:59] Checking my telephone for taps [00:01:01] I'm staring at the woman on the corner [00:01:04] It's f**ked up when your mind is playing tricks on you [00:01:21] I make big money I drive big cars [00:01:23] Everybody know me it's like I'm a movie star [00:01:26] But late at night something ain't right [00:01:28] I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's head lights [00:01:31] Is it that fool that I ran off the block [00:01:34] Or is it that ni**a last week that I shot [00:01:36] Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars [00:01:39] Thought he had 'caine but it was gold medal flour [00:01:41] Reach under my seat grabbed my popper for the suckers [00:01:44] Ain't no use to be lying I was scareder than a motherf**ker [00:01:47] But they're laughing at pow pies and buried that quick [00:01:50] If it's going down let's get this sh*t over with [00:01:52] Here they come just like I figured [00:01:55] I got my hand on the motherf**king trigger [00:01:57] What I saw'll make your a** start giggling [00:02:00] Three black crippled and crazy senior citizens [00:02:03] I live by the sword [00:02:05] I take my boys everywhere I go [00:02:06] Because I'm paranoid [00:02:08] I keep looking over my shoulder and peeping around corners [00:02:11] My mind is playing tricks on me [00:02:27] Day by day it's more impossible to cope [00:02:31] I feel like I'm the one that's doing d**e [00:02:33] Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous [00:02:36] Every Sunday morning I'm in service [00:02:39] Playing for forgiveness [00:02:41] And trying to find an exit out of the business [00:02:44] I know the lord is looking at me [00:02:46] But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy [00:02:49] I often drift while I drive [00:02:51] Having fatal thoughts of suicide [00:02:54] Bang and get it over with [00:02:56] And then I'm worry free but that's bullshit [00:02:59] I got a little boy to look after [00:03:01] And if I died then my child would be a bastard [00:03:04] I had a woman down with me [00:03:06] But to me it seemed like she was down to get me [00:03:10] She helped me out in this sh*t [00:03:12] But to me she was just another b**ch [00:03:14] Now she's back with her mother [00:03:17] Now I'm realizing that I love her [00:03:19] Now I'm feeling lonely [00:03:23] My mind is playing tricks on me [00:03:39] This year halloween fell on a weekend [00:03:42] Me and geto boyz are trick or treating [00:03:45] Robbing little kids for bags [00:03:47] Till an old man got behind our a** [00:03:50] So we speeded up the pace [00:03:52] Took a look back and he was right before our face [00:03:55] We'd be in for a squab' no doubt [00:03:57] So I swung and hit the ni**a in his mouth [00:04:00] He was going down we figured [00:04:02] But this was no ordinary ni**a [00:04:05] He stood about six or seven feet [00:04:08] Now that's the ni**a I'd been seeing in my sleep