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Tricks of the Shade Lyrics by The Goats

Tricks of the Shade

1992

[Verse 1: Madd]
Tell me what`s up, tell me how to run it, down
The tricks of the shade got you merry-going round
Rich moving in got the poor moving out
The property values dropping, so they can`t afford that house
Might I say my-my, how time flies right by
Punks talking junk trying to feed me apple pie
17 to mount Vernon, not a lot of earning
Built some fly new apartments and the tabletops turning
Like a journey man yearning
To make that quick buck
Scams running friends, ay yo, kid, you better duck
They move into your neighborhood now all of a sudden it`s good enough
So let the good get rough and tougher
I`ve had enough of rich motherfuckers taking from my brothers
Imma quick to pick an upper
My brothers moving out, yo, we gotta make room for the white man
Damn, yo, I think I smell a scam
[Verse 2: Swayzack]
Learning the tricks of the shade, the trades of the trickiest
The stickiest motherfucker in the history of hypocrites
Сolombius destroyed more Indians than Hitler killed jews
But on his birthday you get sales on shoes
And this is all old news but can`t find it
You snooze, you lose, so I choose to rewind it
Offer gun for gold but behold a real plan
Using shady treaties trading trickies for land
They should have scalped his ass before he even touched sand
Everything was grand until the sixteen 0`9
That`s when the swine swimmers started freezing and starving
But who did they turn to when the times get harden?
I beg your pardon, punk, but that shit`s shady
You want relief from the Chief after you rape his lady?
But maybe your time`s up, cause here comes the Swayzack
After five hundred fucking years, here`s a payback
[Verse 3: OaTIe Kato]
T-tricks of the shade, devils try to get paid
Can`t relight, getting hype with the type of Gatorade
Bush pulls on the strings, says a trickle is a thing
But it ain`t tricked down around my pockets at a wang
Sing it`s money for the wealthy, healthy is for the healthy
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