[Sampled Intro: Tamia]
I'm checkin' your clothes, I'm checkin' your clothes
I'm checkin' your clothes, I'm checkin' your clothes
I'm checkin' your clothes
And you wear the same size shoe
You sleep in his spot
And you're driving his car
But I don't know just who you are
There's a stranger in my house...
[Verse - Ghais Guevara]
Hope that he know what that shotty do
Hope that he rather skedaddle
Than learn what the 7.62 do inside you
Peep the behavior he showin'
That's tendencies only a bitch is allowed to do
Sit in a puddle of grief while the vultures
Around you be all in ya fuckin food
Never seen bro on the block
Frozen from shock, body on lock
Only could move when abusin' the wock
Somethin' is killin' em
When it eats at his heart, is he feelin' it?
He don't fuck with the dark like Dominicans
But his light seems to shatter his discipline
Or his christening
Warns of the path of a man
Talks with his hands
Even the ones that he love get a glance
Blacken the eye of his brothers and fam
Love of his life gets a shove and a curse
Plague on the people that aided ya birth
Say if she stay then it lessens her worth
Damn
What of the ones with the mission
Knew they was ready to fold
When they peeped all the cards they was given
Enormity tapped in the double helix
Reminiscent proverbial struggle phoenix
Every beat of the heart bring another demon
Uh, aye
Said that the game is the game
Said he knew all of the measures
Them crackas went through to belittle his name
Said if he'd do it again he would take every shot
Til it set him ablaze
Said if he learned how to swallow the agony
He could still see her face
And he act just like his daddy
He done been in them hoods
He done been in the dirt
He done been in them fights in the alley
He done learned from the greats
He done learned from the snakes
He done learned from the books and the tragedies
So why do this nigga reside
In the spot where I feel most at peace with reality?
Peep I don't fuck with no cops
Act like a fool, I don't jest with the shots
If he don't move I'ma let that thing rock
Stood on his ground
Prayed to Allah
Ain't turned around, he was ready to die
I let it ring just to show I don't lie
Uh, brrr, bow
Hit up the homie like bury em
He on the way, by the way
This my first fuckin murder
So bet ima cherish it
Blood on my hands ima wear like a badge
I sit back and I laugh at that terrorist
Stopped in my tracks when I peeped
There's a hole in my chest
How could I be so arrogant
[Bridge: Leonardo DiCaprio]
You know what this place makes me wonder
What's that boss
Which would be worse
To live as a monster
Or die as a good man
[Sampled Outro: Tamia]
Could it be
That the stranger is me
Have I changed so drastically?
Is it I want more for me?
And you remain the same
Or could it be
That the stranger is me
Have I changed so drastically?
Is it I want more for me?
And you remain the same
There's a- There's a-
Stranger in my house
It took a while to figure out
There's no way you could be who you say you are
You gotta be someone else
'Cause he wouldn't- stranger in my house
It took a while to figure out
There's no way you could be who you say you are
You gotta be someone else
'Cause he wouldn't touch me like that
And he wouldn't treat me like you do
He would adore me, he wouldn't ignore me
So I'm convinced there's a stranger in my house
