[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