[Verse 1] Yo, wake up to the sound of sirens, a lullaby for the lost Another body on the block, another life, what's the cost? Mama's workin' double shifts, but we still ain't makin' ends This concrete jungle's got the walls, and we just stuck within the fence See the fiends on the corner, see the OGs on the stoop They ain't got no answers, man, they just part of the loop My dreams feel like a foreign film on a broken TV screen All static and hopeless, ain't no in-between... [Chorus] It's just project walls and project halls And nowhere else to go when the emergency calls It's just the same old faces in the same old pain Trapped in the cycle of the wind and the rain Yeah, it's just project walls... no way out at all... [Verse 2] Saw Little Mikey gettin' pressed, they said "Claim this set or bleed" Now he's packin' in his backpack, plantin' a different kind of seed The faded chalk outline by the (broken swing set A story that ain't finished, but the ending's written yet I look up at the sky, but it's cut by power lines A cage of brick and pressure, designin' all these minds The only role models drippin' gold and drivin' whips Telling us the only way out is to firm up on the grips... [Chorus] It's just project walls and project halls And nowhere else to go when the emergency calls It's just the same old faces in the same old pain Trapped in the cycle of the wind and the rain Yeah, it's just project walls... no way out at all... [Bridge] Sometimes I close my eyes, try to picture a new scene Something green and quiet, somewhere I've never been But then a gunshot crack and the vision disappears And it's back to this same fear that's been holdin' me for years Is this all we are? Just a statistic in a file? Just a temporary number in a permanent exile? [Outro] Project walls... No way out... No way out... Grim. [Beat fades with the sound of a distant police siren and a final, echoing gunshot]
