Q-Tip:  The night is my mind  The sun'll still shine  But the night is on my mind  So parlay while I drop this rhyme  See, Jake be gettin illy when the sun get dark  They be comin out the heads, but shit don't let me start  Their activities are plenty in nighttime(nighttime)  For the ghetto child, it seems to be the right time  See, kids be gettin stuck with jewels and fly gimmicks  Shorty see the action and then start to mimic  Runnin to the corner, the dice game is blazin  Lookin at the loot, it seems so amazin  Puts it short down, to be exact would bound  He shakes the stones in his hand, then he lets it down(uh!)  Scam money don't make none  He threw a trip on the ace, now he's out son  Hits the local bodega to woof down a hero  Son is on a 'Midnight Run' like De Niro  Spots the shorty rock standin on his block  The thieves be handlin in the pumps,so he asked it it's not  Conversation that he kicked to the shorty was a sly one  Increased intensity, his dance sure was a fly one  Took her to the crib there she ran her gibs  About mind upliftment and bein positive  He yawned and he sighed til 1:05  Then he finally realized that hunny wasn't live  At least he didn't plan on buildin for the evenin'  Threw the Fila on the dome and said 'Come on yo, we leavin'  Came out on the scene as he told her to beep him  Saw his man Sam with the blunt in his hand  (Aww Shhh...!!!)You know the transaction  Brothas gettin lost in the weed satisfaction  Comin down the block man loud as (fuck)  You would swear Redman was inside the trunk   As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt  They interrupt ya cipher, and crush ya blunt  See you left your work at home, so they pat you down for nuthin  Why in the hell does 10-4 keep frontin?  You push to the park, even though it's still dark  The kid is nice on the hoop, he said 'I'll spot ya troop'  The night is on my mind   The sun'll still shine   But now the night is on my mind, the night is on the mind  The night is on your mind   A yo, the sun'll still shine  But now the night is on the mind  As for me...  I'm a nocturnal animal, God concentrates  On a young black man, who makes the niggaz speak a shake  The nighttime is busy, it's word to Aunt Kizzy  It's the time we get down, yo son, you know the sound  The flavas on the top with the rugged beat to back it  The night makes the aura and the J can't hack it  The way the moon dangles in the midnight sky  And the stars dance around, a yo, I think it's fly  Intensity, most rappers don't see it  Spirit wise, musically, you gotta be it  Serenity and sirens of the sounds and emotions  In the concrete jungle and the sun don't bungle  I think it's hard to find the words on how I feel  I paid about a deuce twenty for the Ampex steel  But let me slow down, I think I ran my gibs enough  Peace out to the Nation, stay rugged and rough  The night is on my mind, the sun'll still shine  The night is on my mind, the night is on my mind  The night is on my mind, yeah, the sun'll still shine  But now, uh huh, the night is on my mind  The night is on your mind, you know the sun'll still shine  But now the night is on the mind, yeah, the night is on my mind  The night is on the mind, a yo, the sun'll still shine  But now the night is on the mind, yeah, the night is on the mind  The night is on the mind, a yo, the sun'll still shine