Hey!

UH!

Comin′ to you from the old school...Fool

'Cause everything that you do

Leads all the trouble back to you

You can′t take 2 steps

Without being arrested

Never confess

It'll only be contested

Got money problems

And too much isn't one of ′em

I′ve seen the liars and I try to stay in front of them

So push me back

On the right track

'Cause every path

Ends in a cul-de-sac

Feel like I′m being trapped

Can't get beyond here

You wanna cage a rat

But I don′t play that...

Shit

Don't turn away from fear

I get in front of it

Yeah

Pieces will fall to the floor

After your curtain call

You′ll expect more to come

But then get none at all

Making mistakes like love with a hater

Can bait a trap

Turn your black

Heart

Up in your lap

Sources of failure

May impale ya

But nothing will burn ya

Quite like the stare

Everyday is full of strife

From an inner city life

What you thought would be your wife

Has now

Beat you from the inside

Feel like I'm being trapped

Can't get beyond here

You wanna cage a rat

Double E don′t

Play that noise that you′re pushin' like the voice of reason

American pride ain′t out of season

You trade your pennies for dimes

Across your borderline

But wipe the blood off your hands

Before you try to shake mine

Don't call this divine intervention

It′s a concentrated effort toward the loss prevention

Of American pride

Felled by the wayside

Looking for the future it cannot provide

Squeak of the rats in the slums

While the fat cats live like gods and treat you like bums

Convert your pennies to dimes across your border line

But wipe the blood off of your hands when you shake mine

Wipe the blood off of your hands when you shake mine

Wipe the blood off of your hands when you shake mine

No time

The line's been crossed

I feel like I′m being trapped

I can't get beyond here

You're not gonna cage a rat

I ain′t gonna play that noise

Wipe the blood off of your hands when you shake mine (NOISE)

Wipe the blood off of your hands when you shake mine (NOISE)

Wipe the blood off of your hands when you shake mine (NOISE)