[Intro: Ghostface Killah]

Yo... aiyo this joint right here is about

When you goin' through mad shit

And it just seem like you get out of it, nowhere and shit

You thinkin' you puttin' your shit in and you thinkin'

You gettin' over, and doin' all this other shit

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...



[Chorus: 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 Killah]

Aiyo, back in '95 when I was jugglin' bitches

Pumpin' coke out the spot, smackin' fiends in the kitchen

All around dick sucks whenever, blowin' chronic out of Philly's

Gettin' flusty in the Cub' Link era

Niggas tellin' me my spot is hot

They like I think any day now, playboy, shit 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, nigga, you better not run"



[Chorus]



[Interlude: Ghostface Killah *during chorus*]

Yeah... you see how that went right?

That episode got deep and all of that

Knawhatimean? Then