[ti:Panic !!!!!!!] [ar:The Roots] [al:The Roots (International Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Panic !!!!!!! (Album Version|Explicit) - The Roots [00:10.92]Written by:Brown/Ahmir Thompson/Tariq Trotter [00:21.84]I woke up in the darkness at 12 17 to shots and sirenes [00:25.46]Look out the window peep the high beams [00:27.57]Now they searching the cops looking for the person [00:29.28]That pulled the trigga [00:30.43]Medical figures is nursing the kid that got shot [00:33.04]Some innocent AK that would front [00:34.93]To flip the rock on them at king street block [00:36.55]I tried to tell him to stop cuz yo it's ghetto red hot [00:39.01]Similar to the blood now flooding his top [00:41.44]I take a step out the spot to the point of attack [00:43.79]And see the shorty wop heart blast out his back [00:46.04]Damn I'm thinking it don't cease it's no more peace [00:48.65]Police level increase but what the f**k [00:50.50]It's still crime on the streets [00:51.88]I can't breathe now what's going on [00:53.64]One minute you alive the next you're gone [00:55.52]Illadel p h i a hell [00:59.20]Bust off into the heavens for the ni**a who fell [01:00.94]And hit the I for the niggaz who fell [01:02.65]When that could have been prevented [01:04.13]In front of the flat your moms rented [01:06.13]And no one expect that from you cuz you was timid [01:08.46]F**kin with them cats from outside city limits [01:10.77]Funny how this whole thing changed an off minute [01:13.27]Yo dig it panic [01:14.99]None of this is ever granted [01:16.59]Drowning in a nightmare stranded