and jabez called on the god of israel saying oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my coast and that thine hand might be with me and that thou wouldest keep me from evil that it may not grieve me and god granted him that which he requested i m sittin here watchin my daughter being born feel like i should thank god that nothin went wrong back in my days i was headed straight for the graveyard runnin from school cause enemies never stay far wear my colors watchin colors chasin after my older brothers cause they was always into shit good thing we had different mothers playin football in the streets with the homies and local drug dealers kickin back makin money cause the crack fiend was always there so i start sellin that cane cause nobody never cared mama at the post office workin that late night shift takin care of my sisters cause my daddy wasn t shit sweatin over the stove and on a school clothes open the refrigerator like where did the food go tryin to do whatever i can to be a man hope you understand even when shit goes wrong it s part of god s plan amen 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 monsters in my head with monsters in my head underneath the bed underneath the bed layin here staring at this doggystyle poster on my wall bangin snoop dogg spinnin this basketball what the fuck is going on in a nigga head all of my homies gone to jail or they end up dead got my first tattoo tear when i was nineteen chasin a pipe dream crenshaw boulevard chillin that was the night scene and like the movies niggas act a fool when you pushin a beamer who gives a fuck about a school mom s set a curfew but i was breakin all the rules kicked a nigga out the house so i started forming my crew gettin a little bigger on my own in the twelfth grade crips schemin on me cause they know my trap self made tryin to get by or getting high that s how i survived be a leader not a follower that s how them coward s die pay em no mind but keep my chrome to the end of time feeling like no nigga can see me i think they re going blind  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 monsters in my head with monsters in my head underneath the bed underneath the bed seemed like just yesterday a nigga was only 21 showing the little homies how to use a fucking gun now look what i become nigga was on the run from the compton 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 nigga getting paid pouring down rose for my niggas in the grave my nigga 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 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 monsters in my head with monsters in my head underneath the bed underneath the bed