[Verse 1 - Akrobatik]

Let me tell you about the nightfall (nightfall)

There's certain spots you don't want to be

And your ride might stall (what?, might stall, what?)

Cause livin life out here is wicked

To roam the sidewalks that's littered with dirty diapers and losin scratch tickets

When the sun go down, the rules change

Sometimes it seems the ghetto nightime is like a shootin range

Here's how it runs, guns pop like blackheads (what?)

Targets be the prostitutes, gang foes and crackheads

Rides runnin red lights, with no headlights in dead night

So nigga get your head right

You can't walk a block without catchin a dirty look

And dirty kids is cuttin dirty pages out of dirty books

And dirty crooks, they control the streets

Because they sold the streets, now they roll in fleets

I got no crime record but it's like I live in a prison cell

Cause when the night falls, shit is like a livin hell, nightfall

[Hook - Akrobatik]

Let me tell you about the nightfall (nightfall) - 2X

When night falls, your whole state of mind can change

When night falls, the most normal shit be lookin strange

Honor roll students, they be actin deranged

When night falls, when night falls, come on

Let me tell you about the nightfall (nightfall) - 2X

[Verse 2 - Akrobatik]

A word to the wise, when you roam the streets that's desolate

I'm stressin shit, you gots to watch who you messin with (yes)

And if you in the rhyme cyphers under street lights

Rock the beat right or be prepared for a street fight

Each block is cluttered with street pharmacies

Starvin kids and shitty diapers, home alone, they don't know where their mommas be

It's reminiscent of Somalia

Instead of malnutrition though, nigga's what they callin ya

It's kind of like we're waitin for a savior

While the cages that we're dwellin in, are turned to graveyards

And what they're writin on our headstone

Is that when night falls, the ghetto be turnin into the dead zone, nightfall

[Hook - Akrobatik] - w/ ad libs

Let me tell you about the nightfall (nightfall) - 2X

When night falls, your whole state of mind can change

When night falls, the most normal shit be lookin strange

Honor roll students, they be actin deranged

When night falls, when night falls, come on

Let me tell you about the nightfall (nightfall) - 2X

[Verse 3 - Akrobatik]

Sometimes I wonder if there's niggas far away in the stars

Lookin down at us, laughin at the way that we are

Or is they cryin?? Cause unecessarily we be dyin

Nowadays you get killed over which shorty you eyin

The moonlight effects my people kind of like the werewolf

Now every nigga think he John Wilkes Booth

But despite the decreased visibility

I maintain the ability to possess mental agility

So I ain't on the block lookin for Jake

I'm at the crib tryin to get my girl to stop watchin "Ricki Lake"

"As The World Turns," one fact burns

Every 24 hours, night fall returns (what?), nightfall

[Hook - Akrobatik]

Let me tell you about the nightfall (nightfall) - 2X

When night falls, we parlayin under street lights

When night falls, the knuckleheads be lookin for the fights

In the ghetto it seems, shit never goes right

When night falls, when night falls

When night falls, your whole state of mind can change

When night fallsm the most normal shit be lookin strange

Honor roll students, they be actin deranged

When night falls, when night falls, what?

Let me tell you about the nightfall

Let me tell you about the nightfall (nightfall)