MC Quade the Introvert aka NiceGuy aka the WarriorPoet, flows over this J Dilla beat from Common's "It's Your World" lamenting his inability to sleep. His restless mind is a curse but  also the drive behind his creativity. I Dont Sleep Ever. Lyrics below:

I got the old school vibe on this one
its alive I can feel it deep inside on this one
Its that old chronic problem of mine
I cant sleep, I pour gin and tonic to survive and soak deep
I tried to live a life that was calm and low-key, but Im restless
ingest this wine and go sleep.  
I marinate my liver in this liquor to close my eyes quicker even if it makes me sicker when I rise.
It make my hand quiver and men bicker with their wives but the side effects are minimal compared to sober life.
Define the subliminal I live between the lines, and my minds just a little bit away from "not mine".
See nothings as it seems when you cant separate real memories from dreams its like the enemy is me.  
Thats the man in the mirror shit, understand the plan and God will tear the plans in his hands the same minute.
I cant keep livin, smoking cigarettes, so the world keep spinning
I live with no regrets but forget most shit, If I remembered Id regret, I forget but I think thats called a coping mechanism.
Devil as my witness, my soul is so conflicted, and it doesn't help at all that my skull's a mental prison.
I know what Ive been given, life is still worth liven, I represent the Chase like Jeremy Piven.
Chasin that American Dream, Pursuit of Happiness, its gonna take embarrassing scenes like adult actresses,
The cold facts is while I wasn't asleep, they were sleeping on me, like one of they own mattresses.
The biggest mistake they could make was to lose track of us, now Im poised to break the backs of the old the faction,
Damn it feels great to be awake while the world sleeps
Im gaining weight they staying skinny like girls jeans.
You need to stop trying to figure out what the world means,
I guarantee you cant even understand what your girl means.

Overcommunication, Undercomprehension
Social media make everyone want the attention
Im man on a mission, Apocalypse Now, I hope Coppola's jotting this down.
I got a mountainous mound of material that will make the hair on your epithelial stand cause its so real to you.
Natural disasters barraging our homes sabotaged by our cell phones brain tumors grow cancerous.
It got me nervous like when we asked older girls to dance with us
but that was just romance and I was always handsomest.
but this type of nervous gives me no reassurance
its more like Im waiting for the wrath of God to come hammer us.

I Dont Sleep Ever

Beat is a cover instrumental of Electric Relaxation by A Tribe Called Quest.  lyrics below:

Yeah, whatchu wanna do?
Feelin like a fool
I gotta lotta food for thought, you getting hungry soon?
And I been doin it better than all them other dudes
So what you want from me, I gotta tell ya
Its about time it finally came together
Hard times, put my sweater on one arm at a time
yeah, just like the rest of you do
So whatchu wanna do? 
So whatchu wanna do?
Im telling you its better for you than a vegetable
Theres not a sound in town I couldn't flow over
I put it down like the toilet seat when a girls over
I got flaws, but my bars drop jaws so
my weaknesses go unnoticed like unmarked cars.
I hate school so Im takin it slow, but you know
Odd jobs start taking a toll.  Im feelin old.
like alright already lets get on with the show.
But Im paying to go to classes you couldn't pay me to go.
Its crazy I know. 
but ya gotta graduate these days 
if you wanna make more than minimum wage.
So stop bitchin, pull your britches up and just finish.
Get down to business but I just as quickly lose interest.
So I wait tables on guests who never got the memo
Im a server not a servant, they test my mettle 
Trying to save 15% (tip) I guess they learned it from the gecko.

So whatchu wanna do?
So whatchu wanna do? 
Pardon me, I only wanted to wander through
Id part seas, and walk on water to honor you
And part of me is telling me I should follow you.
So whatchu wanna do?
So whatchu wanna do?

Days unravel slow and the bright glow of the sunset,
brings close to unproductive days in abundance
Summertime hand holders stroll through shoulder to shoulder
You can tell how long they been together by the how close he hold her.
The hand of a man feels coarse as sand to the girl but her soft skin makes him feel everythings right in the world.
Poolside, girls lay out, barely wearing any clothes
cause they hate it when their tan lines show
us dudes follow with a cooler filled with bottles
a cold swallow of brew on a hot day and its like you got no problems.
Sunbathin, some blazin, some boozing, most playing it cool,
No biggie if you have to skip some school.
Tossin a football I had in the backseat feelin the heat of the concrete burnin my barefeet.
Pardon me, Sorry if im staring but I don't care
that bikini bottom that your wearing is unfair.
Cool nights with a slight breeze, we squeeze girls in tight jeans, and sip slow from iced teas
Sky so clear its like the stars right here, and the moon so big its like the man right there.
Id just like to thank the man upstairs for a summer day in Auburn thats beyond compare.

So whatchu wanna do?
So whatchu wanna do?
The Southern summer got me loving you.

Summertime In Auburn

Beat is J Dilla's "Love it Here"

Im only asking for life everlasting.
Is that too much? Time is in a rush and Im  
actin like life is gonna be ok, it doesn't always seem that way
sometimes I wanna runaway, but stay to fight another day.
Generation underpaid, some escape,
some must scrape, everything that they can microwave up off that dinner plate.
Illustrate, lilly white innocence, tentative,
Fifty Shades of Grey, now she's darker than a militant.
Gentleman trying to be the bigger man,
chivalrous, focused on his woman like she kissing him with ritalin
celibate, world calls him effeminate
we all lost love, when we found friends with benefits.
If you could live forever tell me who you wanna spend it with
A woman that you love or the chick who deepthroats like a pelican?
Sex is medicine, for the gentlemen, and a weapon for the women
when you mix it up with estrogen.
No question man, people gonna act, 
but they wouldn't have your back if you stuck'em in your knapsack.
Thats just the wack facts of liven with the brats
future comin fast but we liven in the past.

Tell me how you feel, baby, 
if your love is real.

If your love is real, baby
tell me how you feel.

Used to have classes with chicks and studied their asses
more than the books, sneaking looks and still passed
Distracted by the booty my average lapsed
but I could write chapters on the gluteus maximus.
Half assed my classes in favor of cat naps
exchanged daps, harassed chicks to play games fast. 
Cap faced back, reversed,
off the top of my head, like my raps
unrehearsed from the very first
to the very last,  yeah I want it in the worst way
wordplays absurd like a 21st birthday.
My moms always talkin bout the way things were in her day
when she grew up in New Jersey, Im like that does not concern me, 
but a wiser man would listen to the higher plan
I feel it deep inside my chest
somewhere near my diaphragm.
I don't wanna die a lamb
I wanna die a lion
a leviathan, and man the Cannon like I was Mariah's man.
Thats the way I feel, you know its always real
Im just trying to pin it down like a boutonniere
Thats just the way I feel, you know its always real
and you can take that with you like a souvenir.

NiceGuy never in my right mind, but I write lines
with eternity in my sightlines,  I hope I that find the right wife
to invite to embark on a nice life, until then Ill just soak up the nightlife
but the night lifes getting dark and Im too old for a night light,
people say I need to slow it down and they are quite right
but for now Im just gonna light pipes, when the time
is finally right Ill be ready to turn it around
thats what I keep saying, they think that Im playin
after surveying the situation I feel naked like Im at a weigh in.
I cant fake it, I aint gonna make it, tell'em I love'em
tell'em I hated I waited to say how amazin they faces
made me feel on a daily basis.

Tell Me How You Feel

MC Quade the Introvert aka the WarriorPoet
Clarksville, TN -- Nashville, TN

MC Quade the Introvert

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