Cage - Stripes Lyrics






Beer cans and cigarette butts cover the floor day
Half gone, he sleeps scared pregnant teen in the doorway
Watching him sleep clutchin' her belly, little feet kick
to send the teen back to the toilet, spent her last week sick
when little Billy feed her ground up Jesus powder
would've beat her louder if it would've pushed the fetus out of her
Father in the making, crooked M.P. forsaken
The military cop that sells H to bring his cake in
She shaking, praying her labor kicks in before
The doors kicked in for them brown bricks on the floor
I mean, she could tell you exactly how the gutter taste
Father to her kid in custody right when her water breaks
Snitched on his compadres for a few more runs
And the irony in giving a stuffed rat to his newborn son
Dishonorably discharged, no jail time in court
Told to pack his family up and go the fuck back to New York

[Chorus]
Fuck Bill Murray, not the actor, the deadbeat dad the smacked
then left her with rats after he snapped her
The bastard inventor that bent her backwards in winter
with her back against the wall, she can hear death singing in her
With her back against the wall, she still head death singing in her

She's scared to leave him, convinced somehow she really needs him
Back in New York her prison of pain and Billy's freedom
Holdin' her baby, he'd say crazy shit to break her
When she fell asleep, he'd escape her wits end and wouldn't wake her
He'd sneak out the wallo in it role model to shit
That put his Christian scientist father in debt
Gave him his first stroke, he refused his medication
'Cause it went against his religion, he'd rather his lord take him
Through stroke number two and start withering his flesh
Then lay the emaciated world ware two veteran to rest
Left his family debt turmoil and wreckage
And his grandson to scatter his ash over the U.S. Intrepid
Then little Billy plummets to his knees, still numb from it
Held his kid by the arm with a shotgun to his stomach
When threats to destroy what he created get tucked away
when he looks in his son's face to see he might grow up to say

[Chorus]

Needle through the skin again, inject the rust and cinnamon
Pull off the tourniquet, load up the shotgun and sentence him
He knows that there's a bed in hell waitin for him
But he ain't been sane since he started huffin chloroform
With his shit decorum, he lets off shots the neighbors say shooters
Into the phone to Middletown police and state troopers
While every family member on th premises runs from death
Greeted by dozens of officers with guns and vests
His suicide by cop sweater on get low
Is told to the crowd watching him shoot thru the window
His son clutched in his mother's arms, unaware it's the end
They bring him out in handcuffs but never to be seen again

[Chorus]





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  1. �.... �....

    колготочники победят, победит стим

  2. C.... a....

    i always have heard...


    with her back against the wall, she still hear death singing in her *wooooomb*....

  3. E.... R....

    Go on tour fool

  4. J.... N....

    She can still hear death singing in her..

  5. Z.... P....

    Cage best songs Ballard of worms, this, special lady’s has many greats these are my 3 personal favourites no order as they are all top choice, also up there is found my mind in Connecticut and depart from me

    Z.... P....

    And I never knew

  6. Z.... P....

    Most underrated mc!!

  7. D.... S....

    all these years later when i am at my worst i bang this track and feel better ......real shit

  8. O.... ....

    doing what this guy did vvv

  9. P.... D....

    Top 3 cage songs

    P.... D....

    @NightX 07

    Hell's Winter, Moves For the Blind and the Leak Bros album called Waterworld.

    Those are Cage at his best.

  10. D.... J....

    Anyone know why Cage went underground for the last few years???

    D.... J....

    Dejion Jon he didn't go underground ,the industry never gave him a chance . Who knows what he would be right now if he blew up like Eminem

    D.... J....

    I meant like truly underground.
    Like he isn't doing much at all anymore.

    D.... J....

    He let out infernal depths as sam hill it’s pretty much his old underground style

  11. V.... C....

    i want to see him love so bad but not opening for ICP

    V.... C....

    honestly he would mix better with Twiztid

    V.... C....

    never ever,, always him and maybe rhymesayers, def jux, run the jewels-ish connections/collabs...an embrace of the old days connected with the new...and not for acclaim, just art.

  12. F.... B....

    lit. still.

  13. M.... _....

    my favourite cage song

  14. s.... ....

    What a fucking true artist. Beautiful song.

  15. n.... ....

    just commenting since there hasn't been one in over a year. ty and have a nice day.

  16. L.... E....

    I love the tricky Dick Nixon intro.

  17. m.... �....

    this is real rap

    m.... �....

    REALL DGUGHO DBSDREEAA

    m.... �....

    GRIME DAILY CYPHER BIRMINGHAM

    m.... �....

    motherfucking fuck yeah

  18. b.... s....

    i love the stream of consciousness metaphor rap, but goddamn cage can tell a story. he is right up there with slick rick for story telling ability.

  19. y.... ....

    I guess its impossible that they both developed that style....

  20. I.... ....

    Anyone recognise that the backing beat is the same as Epitaph - King Crimson?

    I.... ....

    like Living Legends - Never Fallin is Brian Eno?

  21. D.... K....

    what? are you retarded? that doesn't mean anything. a lot of people can put a lot of syllables in a rhyme, but it doesn't necessarily mean anything. cage has always had meaning to his words, but eminem hasn't. eminem is a fucking faggot who bit cage's style, and badly at that. he couldn't even mimic it correctly.

  22. s.... ....

    This is great.

  23. m.... ....

    @1000rtodd King Krimson-Epitaph

  24. p.... s....

    seriously. why do you children all feel the need to compare things? can't you make decisions on an individual basis, or is everything a competition?

  25. J.... H....

    emily.... is that you?!?!
    and his lifestory is bomb check that shit out

  26. N.... ....

    This is lyrical gold

  27. K.... S....

    ummm this is fromhells winter lol, post that elsewhere dummy

  28. J.... I....

    Used to be a big cage fan, fuckin huge. Movies for the blind, the best. hells winter, was ill.




    As for now... He fucking blows!!!! From a real fan, Shit!

  29. K.... S....

    It's not all teenagers just getting hip hop, so don't use the term for all of us.

  30. D.... ....

    The saddest hiphop song ever..
    I allways feel so sorry for Cage and his mother, every time I hear this track - it's such a painfull storry.. :(

    D.... ....

    Yes,even the beat is so somber and makes you feel sad. Poor Cage..

  31. L.... B....

    It means that his dad (Bill Murray [The Deadbeat dad]) was an alcoholic and a smoker

    L.... B....

    lmao thanks for the expert analysis

  32. D.... ....

    I hope you're not serious...

    D.... ....

    Very. This is his life story.

  33. s.... ....

    eh, eminem didn't do too much sellin out, when his music started to lose inspiration he looked for more so he started rapping about his daughter and shit. i dont think he's done any "yo look how rich i am" songs

  34. I.... ....

    it's from King Crimson's "Epitaph"

  35. J.... ....

    lol maybe if your a 13 year old girl eminem is better, but once u wanna get into true rap ability, and not a sell out little bitch, then listen to cage

  36. D.... E....

    oh my god. Teeny boppers get off Eminems nuts. Cage is nothing like Eminem. This track bangs

  37. e.... ....

    godlike :o_god:

  38. D.... ....

    Sample taken from King Crimson. Cage + Blockhead = fuck yes.

  39. B.... ....

    This one's dope.

  40. r.... k....

    check out shad hes a good under ground artist he's on some ill shit too

  41. P.... D....

    Man, he does sound like Em but Em is just better

    P.... D....

    Phoenix Dunn 9 years later... Eminem was a Cage biter dummy same flow same style but it's the style that Cage made.

  42. j.... ....

    cage is mad ill ! his shit is real too .. mad pain and hurt .. real shockin if you feel me .. like i heard some shit but .. Dammm!!

  43. R.... o....

    nah man em is the illest white rapper ever! he is the only one who can stand up aginst the blacks ones

  44. R.... o....

    y eminem dissed him?

  45. e.... ....

    blockhead killed this beat

  46. G.... ....

    always impressed how deep cage can be ! Oo..

  47. A.... V....

    I just realized this myself, great song from a great band..on another track cage samples 'i would hurt a fly' by built to spill..also a great song..

  48. A.... V....

    immortal technique and cage are both bad ass probably the 2 best rappers i ever heard but i think tech has more better song, but both equally good rap battle indeed

    A.... V....

    Albert V haha

  49. A.... V....

    yeah man this is one of the saddest and best songs i ever heard all this shit really happened to him. read his life story he has had a harder life then half thos bithc ass rappers out there. man spent time in a mental hospital. dude is fucked up in the head and i fell him on the highest level much love for cage

  50. M.... M....

    Immortal technique is the shit

    and cage is the shit

    They need to rap battle