[00:15.311][Verse: Black Thought]
[00:20.971]Yo, I woke up in the darkness at 12:17 to shots and sirens
[00:24.733]Look out the window, peep the high beams
[00:26.505]Now they searchin'
[00:27.528]The cops lookin' for the person that pulled the trigger
[00:29.787]Medical figures is nursin' the kid that got shot
[00:32.295]Some innocent Akh that would front to flip the rock
[00:34.434]On them at McKean Street block
[00:35.688]I tried to tell him to stop 'cause yo, it's ghetto red hot
[00:38.196]Similar to the blood now floodin' his top
[00:40.465]I take a step out the spot, to the point of attack
[00:42.974]And see the shorty-wop heart blast out of his back
[00:45.234]Damn, I'm thinkin' it don't cease, it's no more peace
[00:47.746]Police level increase, but what the ****, it's still crime on the streets
[00:50.758]I can't breathe, now what's goin' on?
[00:52.813]One minute — you alive, the next — you're gone
[00:55.133]Illadel-P-H-I-A Hell
[00:57.899]Bust off into the heavens for the nigga who fell
[01:00.171]And hit the L, for the niggas who fell
[01:01.913]That could have been prevented
[01:03.385]In front of the flat your moms rented
[01:05.172]And no one expect that from you 'cause you was timid
[01:07.757]****in' with them cats from outside city limits
[01:10.016]Funny how this whole thing changed, and augmented
[01:12.582]Yo, dig it, Panic!!!!!
[01:14.338]None of this is ever granted
[01:15.846]Drownin' in a nightmare, stranded