Art Aknid - Nightmare Sweats lyrics

[Verse 1] Yo, I'm from the city where the corners is froze n***as juxtapose with hoes and we scuffle with foes Status determined by ya clothes and fresh kicks on ya toes n***as walking up the blocks fooling policed dog nose Remember, times with dimes in my pocket, the train I'd hop it To double my profits, a coupe details, worth mentioned Inches from canines with keen senses A teen, but the weight I was moving would've earned an adult sentence A couple times with the jakes on my a** I was mad, hopped a fence and i ripped my f**ing pants, but yo East Ferry street, n***as greeted with heat Just last week a n***a got his sh** rocked to sleep Out of towners who come, and see the falls Sometimes experience crime for the first time or caught in a brawl Hookers coming off the crawl, drunk can't stand, they walk using walls Ayo the crime rate climbs, I used to move weight, now I'm focused only on rhymes It's my only escape...so it only makes sense When I commence to dispense real sh** that's intense My intent is to spark ill like aids patients with flints War vets is bent, they walking the chip strip, tryna get they dicks licked, it makes no sense If you want who*e then you head towards Kenmore But be easy black the beast got degrees in excessive force [Hook] As cold as my nightmare sweats I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h The city's cold, as cold as my nightmare sweats I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h The city's cold, as cold as my nightmare sweats I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h The city's cold, as cold as my nightmare sweats I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h [Verse 2] Ayo, n***as love the summer cause it means more b**hes But it brings more murders, and hospital visits Homicides rise when Ra resides in the sky Someone tell Rakim, to stop getting high Fiends who, blatantly basing, they hard to be facing They faces is, f**ed up beyond species relation n***as is squeezing, letting off heat, police retreating I listen, cause these streets, when we feasting they speaking We only hold revolvers so we harder to be tracing Young girls in tight jeans is missing menstruation Litigation by my politicians, I'm in opposition f** my state senators, lately what they done for us? n***as bust, they make it hard for me to get a semi In god we trust? Leave that sh** for my n***a Benny Cause god is absent, so many n***as pa**ing, from trigger action Leave weak n***as gasping, four fifths is blasting We packing Mac knowledge knowledge Hood scholars, let semis holler, instead of attending college Priest are liars, f** the gospel I'm living hostile opposed, I trust a fo'fo' to smite my foes [Outro] I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h... I never sleep, cause sleep brings me visions of d**h..