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Dreams In A Basement (featuring Jill Scott)

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Lyrics
It's quiet here yeah I like to come here

It's lonesome you know what's whack

When I'm down with the

Posse or at home and shit

And everybody be screaming

And yelling and shit

It gets real lonesome

It be like crowded and

Noise and screaming

And suddenly it feels like

I'm the only one there

The more people there is

The lonelier it get

I have this dream yeah like what

Nothing sometimes I have it that's all

Celebrating the win

Celebrate what it meant

Do remember and celebrate it again

Right newly winners

We celebrate where it went

And sewn different

We celebrating the hem

Right you sing along you

Celebrating the hymn

Bet 'em to prove me wrong

You'll be celebrating their end

Tell 'em it's crew first

We celebrating with kin

And f**k an E for effort

Don't celebrate the attempt

My attempt be everything the rent be

Call it hand in hand but a

Hand can't be empty

So I was in the basement

Sparring wit complacency

And my weaving got me off

When it would tempt me

Sofa beds and dealing wit being

Better than all that you listen to

And feeling like it's whatever

As long as it get to you

For the nod and the doze

And the open yawn

Shit is beyond what they hope

Tell 'em no regards

Sometimes I wonder will I

Ever sleep the same

'Cause I I let these dreams

Keep me awake

Said I need more I just need more

'Cause I need more said I

Need more so I dream

For all the Grand Aves

All the Merrick and Lindens

All the Fulton streets forever we did it

May we never forget it

Nor what it took to be it

And for the taking when we take

It like it took repeating

They took to me and I took em home

I shouldered all of it

Brave enough to look alone

Looking thru blinds tryin' to look for time

Counting to hook a line

Tryin' to serve what you deserve

But still cooking mine

Pint of Hennessy tryin' to write a memory

Live it and forget it like tonight

Was like the end of me

Right in a basement loaded with ambition

Smothered by it they wanna

Eye it but can't listen

Sleeping wit the cousin of

Sleep and her hands vivid

Turn for the win but most of em can't pivot

For the nod and the doze and the open yawn

Shit is beyond what they hope

Tell em no regards

Sometimes I wonder will I ever sleep the same

'Cause I I let these dreams keep me awake

Said I need more I just need more

'Cause I need more said I need more so I dream

For the sleepers and for the dreamers

For the awake and everything that's between 'em

For the awake and everything they believe in

And when believing ain't enough I be up

I be up on the other side where the others tried

For the other ride or otherwise

Otherwise I'll be sleeping here with y'all

But dreaming ain't enough so if sleeping is involved

I'll be up on the other side where the others tried

For the other ride otherwise

Dreaming ain't enough so I'll be up

Sometimes I wonder will I ever sleep the same

'Cause I I let these dreams keep me awake

Said I need more I just need more

'Cause I need more said I need more so I dream