Project Windows (feat. Ronald Isley)

Black hoods, cops and projects, sewers flooded with foul blockage The gutter's wild and every child watches Chains in top locks get ripped off hinges Doors kicked off, drunks stag off Smirnoff, wipe your beard off Crippled dope fiends in wheelchairs stare, vision blurry 'Cause buried deep in they mind are hidden stories Bet he's a mirror image of that '70s era He's finished for the rest of his life, 'til he fades out The liquor store workers miss him, but then it plays out So many ways out the hood, but no signs say out Mental slave house where gats go off, I show off Niggas up north, prison-ology talk, 'til they time cut off You should chill if you short, prepare deep thought To hit the street again, get it on, get this paper and breathe again Plan to leave somethin' behind So your name'll live on, no matter what the game lives on Lookin' out of my project window (lookin' out) Oh, I feel uninspired Lookin' out, lookin' out of my project window (Oh, I'm lookin' out) Oh, it makes me feel, so tired Yo, if this piano's the cake, then my words are the candles Light it up, make a wish, and them angels will grant you Impatient once tried, but in those angels and bamboo They lit it up, hit it up, now they dismantled Think the whole world is crazy, got a nine, watch where you walk Two dollar fine, sign of the times here in New York Hire Satan, United Nations quietly taken, toll on your soul Take it or leave it, just my evaluation Stack loot and guns, teach the girls karate, school your sons not to hate But to stay awake, 'cause the scars a razor make is nothin' in comparison To the gash left on this whole mass, if we don't get it controlled fast Might as well be, laughin' with Malcolm X's assassin as we die slow Perishin', brain dead from a Ericsson Words are the medicine, two teaspoons for goons A cup of it for those thuggin' it, y'all sing the tune, uhh Lookin' out of my project window (lookin' out) Oh, I feel uninspired Lookin' out, lookin' out of my project window (Oh, I'm lookin' out) Oh, it makes me feel, so tired Another day, another dollar, my mother will holla She said, "Go and see the world for myself, and my brother should follow" Pops was smooth, from his top to his shoes Sang the blues, guitar strings he played smokin' his Kool Duke Ellington hat, picture this yo, '70s cat He wrote his music in the back of the crib, I did my homework At night the windows were speakers, pumpin' life out A fight, people screamin' 'cause somebody pulled a knife out So I look at this room, I'm hooked to this tune Every night the same melody, hell sounded so heavenly But jail was ahead of me, was speedin' like amphetamine Reading's what I should've done, 'cause my imagination would run I was impatient to get out and become part of the noise out there I used to stare, five stories down, basketball courts, shot up playgrounds And I witnessed the murders and police shake-downs Yo, the hustla's and hoes, drugs and fo'-fo's This was the life of every kid, lookin' out project windows Oh, outta my window Lookin' out of my project window (lookin' out) Oh, I feel uninspired Lookin' out, lookin' out of my project window (Oh, I'm lookin' out) Oh, it makes me feel, so tired Lookin' out of my project window (lookin' out) Oh, I feel uninspired Lookin' out, lookin' out of my project window (Oh, I'm lookin' out) Oh, it makes me feel, so tired Starin' out of, out my window Oh I, feel so tired Oh yeah, outta my window Oh, lookin' out, lookin' out of Lookin' out my window, oh, yeah Makes me, feel so tired Lookin' out of my project window Oh, it makes me feel, so tired