Panic !!!!!!! - The Roots

Written by：Brown/Ahmir Thompson/Tariq Trotter

I woke up in the darkness at 12 17 to shots and sirenes

Look out the window peep the high beams

Now they searching the cops looking for the person

That pulled the trigga

Medical figures is nursing the kid that got shot

Some innocent AK that would front

To flip the rock on them at king street block

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

Similar to the blood now flooding his top

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

And see the shorty wop heart blast out his back

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

Police level increase but what the f**k

It's still crime on the streets

I can't breathe now what's going on

One minute you alive the next you're gone

Illadel p h i a hell

Bust off into the heavens for the ni**a who fell

And hit the I for the niggaz who fell

When that could have been prevented

In front of the flat your moms rented

And no one expect that from you cuz you was timid

F**kin with them cats from outside city limits

Funny how this whole thing changed an off minute

Yo dig it panic

None of this is ever granted

Drowning in a nightmare stranded