Liquor Store, Laundromat, Chinese Restaurant

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 w/out being arrested
Never confess it’ll only be contested
Got money problems & too much isn’t 1 of ‘em
I’ve seen the liars and I try to stay in front of ‘em
so push me a 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
Pieces will fall to the floor after the 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
just 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 & treat you like bums
Converting pennies for dimes across the 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)