[Intro: Ghostface k**ah]
Yo... aiyo this joint right here is about
When you goin' through mad sh**
And it just seem like you get out of it, nowhere and sh**
You thinkin' you puttin' your sh** in and you thinkin'
You gettin' over, and doin' all this other sh**
But before you know it, your whole world just caved in on you, pa
Check the joint, it's... uh-huh, yeah, I walked into the place
Verse one...
[Hook: David Poter sample]
Over, and then my life (the masquerade)
I know it's over... (the masquerade)
Uh-oh, over (over) my my my good day is over
(Over) the masquerade is over (over)
Uh-oh-oh, it's over... (over)
[Ghostface k**ah]
Aiyo, back in '95 when I was jugglin' b**hes
Pumpin' coke out the spot, smackin' fiends in the kitchen
All around dick s**s whenever, blowin' chronic out of Philly's
Gettin' flusty in the Cub' Link era
n***as tellin' me my spot is hot
They like I think any day now, playboy, sh** gon' pop
Back then I was the phat Ghost, them came March 1st
My eighth platoon got murked, got burnt for all our work
After the funeral, I played low, countin' my last ten g's
Three weeks later, yo, I'm back in the P's
Gatherin' up information, checkin' faces
Keepin' a forty-five auto' loaded like it was bases
When it get dark, venom will leave my mark (over)
I heard a voice through a bullhorn, a white man he said "Yo, Starks!
You're surrounded, put down your gun, look at the rules
There's nothin' but cops, n***a, you better not run"
[Hook]
[Interlude: Ghostface k**ah *during Hook*]
Yeah... you see how that went right?
That episode got deep and all of that
Knawhatimean? Then it just go on and
It just don't stop... I don't care what town you from
What hood you from, it just all goes in, yo, check this episode
Verse two
[Ghostface k**ah]
Aiyo, aiyo, 11:40 A.M. in the best Western
I'm with my bat, blew her a** back and chest in
Slob my knob, yeah no question, this my main bat
She thorough like that, so we don't use protection
But the night before, my wiz must of check my phone
How the f** she get the codes... I don't know
Next thing, she layin' in the 'tel lobby, spotted me
Tippin' the doorman, holdin' hands with my b**h besides me
My heart drop, everything stops, scared to d**h
Told my broad to keep it moving, cuz I just got knocked
Don't turn around, as soon she did, she bust a shot
Plus she talk, security drop when she touch the Glock
I had the gum-face on, long face on
Didn't say sh**, not even cough or spit, my b**h was gone
There goes the car, house, rhyme boats or j**elry
Court date judges, my shorty tried to screw me
[Hook 2X]
[Interlude w/ Hook: Ghostface k**ah]
Uh... you see, sometime it don't pay
What goes around comes around in
In many different ways and
You can guess what happened
That's right ya'll, you know how it get down
If anybody got it locked, it's God, that's right
Word...
[Outro: Solomon Childs (Ghostface k**ah)]
Hey Kimmy, how you doing? What up Keisha
Damn girl, your hair looks so nice
Yeah, I got my sh** done at Tasha's
You know I don't even f** with that b**h
Yo, son, I think Ghost f**in' one of them b**hes, man
And can you believe this son told them b**hes that he can cook, man
Yo, I can't believe this, these b**hes don't know where to f**in'
Put a salon up in the f**in' hood, son I can't even make no money no more, man
(Yo, son... maybe you need to tell them b**hes that
If they could put a Ms. Pac-Man or somethin' in the back
Maybe we could get some money back, maybe we could get some money back there)
Son, you know I don't even fu*k with them b**hes like that, nig', come on, man
"Come on sugar, hold me tight" ... - sample