(Intro – Radio chatter, metal doors slamming) “Code 3, PSU 3… Lockdown initiated.” “Count ‘em all. Count ‘em twice.” (Verse 1) Concrete veins run through this land, Steel in the bones, blood on command. Thirty years behind this gate, Every day we roll the fate. Cameras blink like tired eyes, No one tells the truth, just lies. Uniformed ghosts move in line, Doing time on borrowed time. (Pre-Chorus) The walls remember every sound, And write your story underground. (Chorus) Sac State Lockdown, Where the lights don’t fade, they drown. Chains hum like broken hymns, Forgiveness don’t belong to them. Sac State Lockdown, Every door’s a battleground. We breathe the fear, we bear the weight— And clock out just past the gate. (Verse 2) Echoes through the tier at three, Keys swing soft in minor key. One wrong move, one wrong stare, You’ll meet the devil waiting there. Some pray loud, some don’t at all, Faith don’t fit in a concrete hall. The paper says it’s under control, But it’s chaos wearing a payroll. (Pre-Chorus) Same steps, same shift, same lie, Another sunrise you survive. (Chorus) Sac State Lockdown, Where the lights don’t fade, they drown. Chains hum like broken hymns, Forgiveness don’t belong to them. Sac State Lockdown, Every door’s a battleground. We breathe the fear, we bear the weight— And clock out just past the gate. (Bridge – Spoken Over Industrial Drop) (Background: alarms, muffled yelling, keys jangling) “Unit clear.” “Medical to B-yard.” “Lock it down. All of it.” “Somebody’s son. Somebody’s ghost.” (Slow guitar swell beneath dialogue) (Final Chorus – Layered Vocals, Slow Burn) Sac State Lockdown, Silence is the only sound. From cell to cell, the stories bleed, Men of order, men of need. Sac State Lockdown, We serve the system, not the crown. Where mercy rusts and steel hearts pound, We’re buried here above the ground. (Outro – Fade Out) (Radio static, chain drag, faint echo of the line “Lock it down…”) “Count complete.” “Doors secure.” (Static fades to silence)
