[Intro]
(DJ Cummerbund)
Tell me!
[Verse 1: Billie Joe Armstrong]
Do you have the time to listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once?
I am one of those melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Adam Young]
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams
[Verse 2: Coolio]
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothin' left
'Cause I’ve been blasting and laughing so long
That even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
[Chorus: Coolio, Billie Joe Armstrong]
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
(Welcome to paradise...)
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta’s paradise
(Oh, paradise...)
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta’s paradise
(Am I just paranoid? Huh yeah, yeah...)
[Verse 3: Billie Joe Armstrong, Coolio]
I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams
(To analyze all my dreams)
She says it's lack of sex that’s bringing me down
I went to a whore, he said my life's a bore
(He said that my life's a bore)
So quit my whining 'cause it’s bringing her down
[Inhale]
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
Got my 10 in my hand, and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger
And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger, fool
Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away
I'm living life "do or die", what can I say?
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?
The way things is going, I don't know
Tell me!
[Chorus: Billie Joe Armstrong, Adam Young]
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
(Sometimes I give myself the creeps)
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
(Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me)
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
(I think I'm cracking up)
'Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep)
[Bridge: Coolio, Adam Young]
(Tell me!)
Why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me?
(It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep)
Tell me why are we so blind to see
'Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep)
[Verse 4: Adam Young, Billie Joe Armstrong]
I'd like to make myself believe
(Sometimes I give myself the creeps)
That planet Earth turns slowly
(Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me)
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
(It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up)
Because my dreams are bursting at the seams
[Verse 5: Adam Young, Randy Savage]
(Oh, yeah!)
'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread
[Chorus: Adam Young, Coolio]
I'd like to make myself believe
(Power and the money, money and the power)
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
[Verse 6: Coolio, Adam Young]
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
(When I fall asleep)
(Power and the money, money and the power)
'Cause everything is never as it seems
Keep spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
(When I fall asleep)
Minute after minute, hour after hour
[Outro: Adam Young]
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems
