Yo, aiyo, this joint right here is about
When you goin' through mad ****
And it just seem like you get out of it, nowhere and ****

You thinkin' you puttin' your **** in and you thinkin'
You gettin' over, and doin' all this other ****
But before you know it, your whole world just caved in on you, pa
Check the joint, it's

Over, over
(And then my life in)
The masquerade
(I know it's over)
The masquerade

Over, over
(My, my, my, good day is over)
Over

(The masquerade is over)
Over, over
(Wo-oh-oh, it's over)
Over

Yo, yo, aiyo, back in '95 when I was jugglin' *****es
Pumpin' coke out the spot, smackin' fiends in the kitchen
All around **** sucks whenever, blowin' chronic out of philly's
Gettin' flusty in the cub' link era

*****s tellin' me my spot is hot
They like I think any day now, playboy, **** gon' pop
Back then I was the phat ghost, then 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
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, *****, you better not run'

Over
(And then my life in)
The masquerade
(I know it's over)
The masquerade

Over, over
(My, my, my, good day is over)
Over

(The masquerade is over)
Over
(Wo-oh-oh, it's over)
Over

Aiyo, aiyo, 11:40 a.m. in the Best Western
I'm with my bat, blew her *** 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 have checked my phone
How the ***k 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 ***** beside me

My heart drop, everything stops, scared to death
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 dum-face on, long face on
Didn't say, '****', not even cough or spit, my ***** was gone
There goes the car, house, rhyme boats or jewelry
Court date judges, my shorty tried to screw me

Over
(And then my life in)
The masquerade
(I know it's over)
The masquerade

Over, over
(My, my, my, good day is over)
Over

(The masquerade is over)
Over
(Wo-oh-oh, it's over)
Over

Over
(And then my life in)
The masquerade
(I know it's over)
The masquerade

Over, over
(My, my, my, good day is over)

Hey Kimmy, how you doing? What up Keisha
Damn girl, your hair looks so nice
Yeah, I got my **** done at Tasha's
You know, I don't even ***k with that *****

Yo, son, I think ghost ***kin' one of them *****es, man
And can you believe this son told them *****es that he can cook, man
Yo, I can't believe this, these *****es don't know where to ***kin'
Put a salon up in the ***kin' hood

Son I can't even make no money no more, man
Yo, son, maybe you need to tell them *****es that
If they could put a Miss pac-man or somethin' in the back
Maybe we could get some money back there

Son, you know I don't even ***k with them *****es
Like that, nig', come on, man
Come on sugar, hold me tight