Dame Du Quartier - Paper Trails Lyrics

[Intro]
Paper trails, paper trails
Watch how they twist my tale
Every receipt got a story to tell

[Verse 1]
Started from birth certificates, now we here
Every document they got on me crystal clear
They study my path like some anthropology
Taking my life, turn it to mythology
Fake friends snapping pics when I ain't looking
Building files thick like they federal booking
My past getting sold like some vintage goods
They ain't understand where I really stood

[Chorus]
Paper trails, they follow me (follow me)
Every move documented, supposedly (supposedly)
Think they know me from these photographs
But they only see what makes them laugh
Paper trails, they haunting me (haunting me)
Every stamp and signature's got a fee (got a fee)
Try to own my story, sell it back
But they don't know about the facts

[Verse 2]
Middle class dreams turned to paranoia
Every picture clicked becomes their ploy, yeah
Used to trust you with my memories
Now you trading them like commodities
Passport stamps tell where I've been
But can't show the places I'm really in
Immigration forms can't capture my soul
Though they try to fit me in their mold, shit

[Bridge]
They want proof of who I am
Through these papers in their hands
But my truth ain't on no page
Can't be filed away, no way

[Verse 3]
Vanessa thought she knew my whole life story
Took my image, tried to claim the glory
Every candid shot a violation
Every document a confirmation
Of what? They don't know me for real
Just fragments that they trying to steal
Paper trails lead nowhere true
Just dead ends they stumbling through

[Chorus]
Paper trails, they follow me (follow me)
Every move documented, supposedly (supposedly)
Think they know me from these photographs
But they only see what makes them laugh
Paper trails, they haunting me (haunting me)
Every stamp and signature's got a fee (got a fee)
Try to own my story, sell it back
But they don't know about the facts

[Outro]
Let them follow these paper trails
They'll never find the real me
Archives full of empty shells
That's all they'll ever see