site logo  Joe Budden Now I Lay Lyrics  Last updated: 12/24/2008
10:00:00 AM  I'd like to welcome everybody, to the Padded Room
[Joe Budden] Uh, pump it up, you came to get it crunk A dame to
get her drunk, you came to get it on That's when it all got
started (I mean) Back then I wasn't so cold-hearted (c'mon) With
every stanza came an extravaganza For every question he got one
less answer I was tryin to be more than cool Now it was before
that, maybe boardin school That was back when I would wanna
danger myself Maybe it was just to entertain myself I don't need
help, I could change myself Fuck y'all, I ain't gotta explain
myself Just around the corner, I can hear footsteps Then we can
get on the only nigga in the hood left So child that ain't
listenin ain't mine For 28 years been a prisoner of the mind am
I  [Chorus: Joe Budden] Now I lay me down to sleep (And I) I
pray the Lord my soul to keep (If I) If I should die before I
wake (Then what?) I pray the Lord my soul to take (I mean) Now I
lay me down to sl