Intruder Alert Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SleepyHollow 

Cover art for Intruder Alert lyrics by Lupe Fiasco

First verse is my favorite. And it is from Cuba, the Rio Grande is like a couple feet thick. Also, there's no shore, its a river. Shore meaning ocean/sea, meaning Florida I presume. But he's not talking about 'Cuba' per se, he just put that as the location. He's talking about all immigrants who come to America, and their primary reasons for a better life for their children, putting their children before them. The diagnosed problems he listed aren't just of Cuba, they are of a bunch of foreign third world countries, he just picked 'Cuba' in terms of the last part, but the first part is just immigration in general.

Could also mean Haiti or other islands out there

Props to Kutentamen! He is talking about Haiti or another island like that. NOT cuba.