(Verse 1)

Neon glow on the smoke and the fog

Late in February, raining cats and dogs

Staring at the ceiling where the shadows creep

Keep your best eye open, 'cuz the city don't sleep

Jimmy and The Fish went down the block

Askin' one too many questions and Fish got caught

Fish brain got splattered all over the place

Jimmy standing there with a dumbass look on his face

Cops rolled up on both his sides

Homie got position without catching their eyes

Call came to fall back, but they were mesmerized

Nobody seen the dagger pierce the officer's hide

Heavy is the head that wears a dangerous crown

Boss Woman knows who could burn it all down

That canary in satin, some bird they met on the town

She's running in the room and screaming officer down

(Chorus)

Be never afraid

Hesitate and your opponent will end your game

Are you predator, prey, or parasite?

You will be welcomed to the City of Insomnia

Caught you out late

Every minute is a second from sealing your fate

Count your hours in days

Pay your month this week, and

Welcome to the City of Insomnia

(Verse 2)

She's undercover on the scene with the cuffs to meet her

After laying out that assailant like a Walmart greeter

Her highness, stage left enter, wrath of the empress

They came for justice, but she calls it insolence

Stupidity and bravery often indistinguishable

Don't know which one made Jimmy think to do the unthinkable

Stepped to Boss Man's woman like "Bitch, you owe me!"

Two minutes later, Jimmy's widow was lonely

Go the other cop, full steam ahead

Well, he thought he was a hero, but he ended up dead

Ran toward Big Boss, no signs of lenience

And he got laid out like a minor inconvenience

Poor kid, too close to the scene; then

Couldn't have been more than fourteen or fifteen

Stuck his head in where the lady could see

And he fell to her forty-five ACP

(Chorus)

Be never afraid

Hesitate and your opponent will end your game

Are you predator, prey, or parasite?

You will be welcomed to the City of Insomnia

Caught you out late

Every minute is a second from sealing your fate

Count your hours in days

Pay your month this week, and

Welcome to the City of Insomnia

(Verse 3)

A chill in the air, blood soaking the ground

One bullet away from straight ganking the crown

Familiar faces arrive, some help from the south

An FBI agent with a butt in his mouth

Stopped Boss Lady cold in her tracks, so she

Retreated to her man and reloaded her gat

The Fed took the opportunity to get one in custody

Boss fled, saying, "Don't forget the last time you busted me!"

G-man's cold, "All bets are off"

With a forty grit stubble and a sideways cough

Dudes join the party, more cops advance

Lady step away, 'cuz she's pissing her pants

The walls close in, that's when I came out

And I'm the boogeyman that they warned you about

Dire situation, room thick with tension

When the Fed slipped past me, no apprehension

(Chorus)

Be never afraid

Hesitate and your opponent will end your game

Are you predator, prey, or parasite?

You will be welcomed to the City of Insomnia

Got you outplayed

Every minute is a second from sealing your fate

Count your hours in days

Pay your month this week, and

Welcome to the City of Insomnia

(Verse 4)

Boss Man got behind me like a rat in a cage

The U.C. took advantage at this critical stage

Sprinted on his heels, determined to give chase

I caught her headless, twelve gauge slug to the face

Boss was elated, his downfall abated

With the only witness lying on the pavement decapitated

The deal was sealed, closed mouths can't sing

Until a voice from out the shadow said

"I just saw the whole thing"

The fed took a hostage, from in the back door

With a Polaroid photo and the barrel of a forty-four

Boss Man's balls, palm of his hand

He says, "Just remain obedient and stay a free man"

Saw the whole thing, and he could've tried stopping me

A federal agent, now ain't that some hypocrisy?

Collateral damage, huh? Yeah, I guess it's a shame

But everybody’s someone else's pawn in this game