[Verse: Black Thought]

Yo, I woke up in the darkness at 12:17 to shots and sirens

Look out the window, peep the high beams

Now they searchin'

The cops lookin' for the person that pulled the trigger

Medical figures is nursin' the kid that got shot

Some innocent Akh that would front to flip the rock

On them at McKean Street block

I tried to tell him to stop 'cause yo, it's ghetto red hot

Similar to the blood now floodin' his top

I take a step out the spot, to the point of attack

And see the shorty-wop heart blast out of his back

Damn, I'm thinkin' it don't cease, it's no more peace

Police level increase, but what the fuck, it's still crime on the streets

I can't breathe, now what's goin' on?

One minute — you alive, the next — you're gone

Illadel-P-H-I-A Hell

Bust off into the heavens for the nigga who fell

And hit the L, for the niggas who fell

That could have been prevented

In front of the flat your moms rented

And no one expect that from you 'cause you was timid

Fuckin' with them cats from outside city limits

Funny how this whole thing changed, and augmented

Yo, dig it, Panic!!!!!

None of this is ever granted

Drownin' in a nightmare, stranded