dope dreams

yeh you know who i am, the blue bag stamped with the mark of the beast
im the one the hustlas on the cornas sell to fiends in the streets
dont an come short you better have straight money
forget your girl, you dont need her, i promise to always be your honey
just used me occasionally sayin you dont really gotta have it
then you wake up sick an hurt realizin you got a habit
started out innocent enough, just a little to ease the pain
before you knew it, escalated to usin needs to inject me in your vein
growin up as a youth you never dreamed it would come to this
you had so much talent an ambition that it hurts to reminise

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somewhere along the line you lost sight of your hopes an dreams
cause once my high wears off nothing is ever what it seems
got you wanderin through life like a young child lost
you may have forgot about your problems for the moment but at what cost
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now you checked yourself into rehab to get your mind back on track
but im in the back of your brain, waitin for the right moment to attack
your parents dont know if they can trust you yet or not
so they gotta double check to make sure some doors are locked
doin everything to you can to get back in their good grace
gonna change this time, but the past you cant erase
got a little job an doin well, even stacked a little paper
everythings good, till the day you get a proposition from the neighbor
think since you been clean awhile you can do me one more time
before you knew it you were broke an out committin another crime

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got yourself locked up an gotta do a bid up in the county
detoxin in your cell wonderin 'do my friends think about me?'
they were there for you when you had money an me but now your down
if you stopped usin me you think they would still want you comin around
see im the glue that holds everyone together
long as im on your back i promise you'll be friends forever
from the moment you tasted me i been puttin you under my spell
may break it one day but till then you'll be nothin but a shell
i got a little secret, i hope it dont come as much of a surprise
i only pretended to  be your friend, im just the devil in disguise

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somewhere along the line I robbed you of your hopes an dreams
soon as my high wears off nothing is ever what it seems
i had you wanderin through life like a young child lost
i let you forget your problems for the moment, but at what cost?
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