[Verse 1: Game]
I'm sitting here watching my daughter being born
Feel like I should thank God that nothing went wrong

Back in my days I was headed straight for the graveyard
Running from school cause enemies never stay far
Wear my colors watching colors chasing after my older brothers

Cause they was always into %#@!, good thing we had different mothers
Playing football in the streets with the homies
And local drug dealers kicking back making money cause the crack fiend

Was always there so I start selling that cane cause nobody never cared
Mama at the post office working that late night shift
Taking care of my sisters cause my daddy wasn't %#@!

Sweating over the stove and on a school clothes
Open the refrigerator like where did the food go?
Trying to do whatever I can to be a man, hope you understand

Even when %#@! goes wrong it's part of God's plan, Amen

[Chorus:]

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Lord my soul to keep
Wake me up before I'm dead
Don't bury me with monsters in my head, yeah

Monsters in my head, with monsters in my head
Underneath the bed, underneath the bed


[Verse 2: Game]
Laying here staring at this Doggystyle poster on my wall
Banging Snoop Dogg spinning this basketball, what the $#&@ is going on?

In a ^!$$% head, all of my homies gone to jail, or they end up dead
Got my first tattoo tear when I was 19, chasing a pipe dreams
Chrenshaw boulevard chilling, that was the night scene

And like the movies, ^!$$%s act a fool
When you pushing a beemer, who gives a $#&@ about a School?
Mom's seta curfew, but I was breaking all the rules

Kicked a ^!$$% out the house so I started forming my crew
Getting a little bigger on my own, in the 12 grade crips scheming on me
Cause they know my trap self made, trying to get by or getting high

That's how I survived, be a leader not a follower, that's how them cowards die
Pay 'em no mind but keep my chrome to the end of time
Feeling like no ^!$$% can see me I think they're going blind


[Chorus:]
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Lord my soul to keep

Wake me up before I'm dead
Don't bury me with monsters in my head, yeah
Monsters in my head, with monsters in my head

Underneath the bed, underneath the bed

[Verse 3: Game]

Seemed like just yesterday a ^!$$% was only 21
Showing the little homies how to use a $#&@ing gun
Now look what I become, ^!$$% was on the run

From the coptom slums, they right, like father like son
But I'm missing them days when I couldn't roll up a blunt
Bust the windows out of cars just to only drive it once

Yeah them was the days but now a ^!$$% getting paid
Pouring down rose for my ^!$$%s in the grave
My ^!$$% Big Will and my homie P D

Feel like yesterday we was just running in the streets
And I swear to God funny how the time fly
And the only thing certain is that we all die

So let your soul fly

[Chorus:]

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Lord my soul to keep
Wake me up before I'm dead
Don't bury me with monsters in my head, yeah

Monsters in my head, with monsters in my head
Underneath the bed, underneath the bed