Nightmare On My Street

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Nightmare On My Street

A nightmare on my streetd.j. jazzy jeff and the fresh princehe's the d.j, i'm the rappernow i have a story that i'd like to tellabout this guy, you all know me i was scared as hellhe comes to me at night when i crawl into bedhe's burnt up like a weenie and his name is fredhe wears the same hat and sweater every single dayand even if it's hot outside, he wears it anyway!he's home when i'm awake, but he shows up when i sleepi can't believe that there's a nightmare, on my street!it was a saturday evening if i remember it rightand we had just gotten off of tour last nightso the gang and i thought that it would be groovyif we summoned up the posse and down watch a moviei got angie, jeff got tinaready rock got some girl i've never seen in my lifethat was alright though, 'cuz lady was chillthen we dipped to the theatre set to illbuggin' , cold havin' a balland somethin' 'bout elm street was the movie we sawthe way it started was decentyou know, nothin' real fancyabout this homeboy named fredand this girl named nancybut, word! when it was over, i said, "yo, that was def!"and everything seemed alright when we leftbut when i got home and laid down to sleepthat began the nightmare, on my street!it was burnin' in my room like an ovenmy bed soaked with sweat, and man, i was buggin'i checked the clock, and it stopped at 12:30it had melted it was so darn hot, and i was thirstyi wanted something cool to quench my thirsti thought to myself, yo! this heat is the worst!but when i got downstairs, i noticed something was wrongi was home all alone, but the tv was on.i thought nothin' of it as i grabbed the remotei pushed the power button, and i then almost chokedwhen i heard this aweful voice comin' from behind, it said"you are my favorite rapper, but now you must die!" (?)man, i ain't even wait to see who it wasbroke inside my drawers and screamed, "so long 'cuz!"got halfway up the block, i calmed down and stopped screamin'and thought, oh, i get it, i must be dreamin'i strolled back home with a grin on my grilli'm thinkin' since this is a dream, i might as well get illi walked in the house, the big, bad, fresh princebut freddy killed all that noise real quickhe grabbed me by my neck and said,"here's what we'll do. we've got a lotta work here, me and you,the souls of your friends, you and i will claim.you've got the body, and i've got the brains."i said, "yo, fred. i think you've got me all wrong.i ain't parnters with nobody with nails that long.look, i'll be honest man, this team won't workthe girls won't be yours, fred, your face is all burnt"fred got mad and his head started steamin'but i thought what the hell, i'm only dreamin'i said, "please leave fred, so i can get some sleep.but gimme a call, and maybe we'll hang out next week."i pat him on the shoulder, say, "thanks for stoppin' by."then i opened up the door and said, "take care, guy!"he got mad, threw back his arm, and slashed my shirti laughed at first, then thought, hold up...that hurt.it wasn't a dream, man, this guy was for reali said, "freddy, uh, uh, there's been an aweful mistake here."no further words, and then i darted upstairscrashed through my door then jumped on my bedpulled the covers up over my head and said,"oh please, do somethin' with fred!"he jumped on my bed and threw the covers with his clawstried to get me...but my alarm went off. and thensilenceit was a whole new day, i thought.heh...i wasn't scared of him, anyway.until i noticed those rips in my sheetsand that was proof that there had been a nightmare, on my street.oh man, i gotta call jeff, i gotta call jeffc'mon, c'mon...c'mon jeff, answer!c'mon manjeff: hello...prince: jeff, it's prince man, jeff, wake up jeff, wake up!jeff: what do you want?!prince: jeff, wake up, man. listen to me. jeffjeff: it's 3 o'clock in the morning, what do you want?prince: jeff, listen, jeff, would you listen to me? whatever you do, don'tfall asleep.jeff: man!prince: jeff..listen to me. don't go to sleepjeff: look, i'll talk to you tomorrow, i'm goin' to bed aghh.....aghhhprince: jeff! jeff! ..........jeff, answer me, jeff!freddy: i'm your d.j. now, princy...ha ha ha