Don't Sleep - Matlock

Lie wide wake counting the cracks in the ceiling

Hoping the sandman might come and knock me out like Peter McNeeley

Toss and turn, my eyes are heavy, they just won’t stay closed

Kick off the covers (get out of bed) turn on the tube (blaze a roach)

Last time I slept, I dreamt we loved our neighbors

Friends and family were loyal and returned all favors

But when I woke, all I saw was jokers and strangers

All my pussy partners was gone along with all my papers (haters!)

A lot of peoples two-faced

That’s why I keep my boots laced

Stomp through this swamp like a Sasquatch for you snakes

(For true fakes) For hoes, for all the co-d's that turn state

For the shady motherfuckers that wasn’t down in the first place

Who’s your ace?

Who the fuck got love and who doesn’t

Who’s your homie (Who's a phony)

Who’s for real?

(Who's frontin?)

I count the days in the week while you fools count sheep

I’ll have enough time for Z’s when I’m six feet deep

(Don't sleep) Frauds, connivers, money-misers and cheats

(Don't sleep) Betrayal, tattle-tails, lies and deceit

Cats will get you for your shit when you just trying to eat

Bury the hatchet in your back and let you die in the street

(Don't sleep) Watch your friends and keep your enemies close

(Don't sleep) Drugs and lust, trust and treasury notes

Drugs, lust, trust and treasury notes

Anything goes, these cats will raise the razor’s edge to your throat

So burn the midnight oil and let the effigy roast

Don’t sleep

People will lie right to your face with a pearly grin

No matter what urban city or backwood 'burb you in

Your best friend, your Pops, your own Mom or your girlfriend

Could set you up (sell you out) bring you down (or turn you in)

Could be your man next to you, same cat that you’d brawl with

Head bobbing along to my song saying it’s raw shit

He’s mad fake (what?) he’s a traitor, he’s a damn flake

He’ll swear shit on a hand shake (and flip like a pancake)

Skate with your change while you’re dumbfound, clueless

All your boys ain’t the truest, every crew has a Judas

Don’t be the first to snooze in a room of opportunists'

Or cast pearls to swine (now that’s just foolish)

For Benedicts, turncoat pricks and fellow theives

I keep a shank on the hip and tricks in both sleeves

Believe none of what I hear and only half of what I see

And I don’t trust no-motherfucking-body but me

(Don't sleep) Watch your back 'cause all your friends will be ghost

(Don't sleep) Keep a weapon and your enemies close

Ready alone I’ll die on both my feet defending my post

Y’all burned me on too many times now I could never be dosed

(Don't sleep) Rumors flying, enterprising and beef

(Don't sleep) Blackmail, records sales, lies and deceit

They’re out for dolo, you can see it in their eyes when they speak

They’ll stab you in your fucking back and let you die in the street

Don’t sleep

Smoke a cigarillo, scratch my 5 o’clock shadow

Up at the crack of Dawn like I’m Tony Orlando

Yawn and blow out the candle, stroll down the block and back

Street creature (moonshiner) night owl (insomniac)

Long ago I slept-walked to all dreams end

Where all the people say they love you but it’s all pretend (friend?)

Now all your Unisoms and Tylenol PMs

Can’t put me down enough to float me out to REM

To the heads I gave that in return ripped out my heart

Kicked in on the ground and tore it up in a thousand parts

Your karma’s out tomorrow, the stormy day’s about to start

It’s gonna come from out the dark and blow your little house apart

And on that day when the worms seek the sidewalk

I’ll be awake to watch 'em get ate by the nighthawks

Old friends and new foes, those I once knew

Fuck you, may all your nightmares come true

(Don't sleep) Frauds, connivers, money-misers and cheats

(Don't sleep) Betrayal, tattle-tails, lies and deceit

Cats will get you for your shit when you just trying to eat

Bury the hatchet in your back and let you die in the street

(Don't sleep) Watch your friends and keep your enemies close

(Don't sleep) Drugs and lust, trust and treasury notes

Anything goes, these cats will raise the razor’s edge to your throat

So burn the midnight oil and let the effigy roast (don't sleep)

Don’t Sleep

Don’t Sleep