Keep your eyes open

[Intro]
(Check the perimeter)
(Watch your back)
(Cold world)

[Verse 1]
Heavy winter jacket hiding metal for the drama
Checking every corner dodging trauma seeking karma
Pavement under boots feeling colder than a casket
Life is just a target and we’re trapped inside the basket
Lungs full of soot breathing heavy in the gray air
Scanning for the reaper with a predatory stare down
No emotion in the motion keep the focus on the friction
Paranoia is the gospel violence is the only fiction
Eyes on the rearview counting every single engine
Survival is a habit not a momentary intention
Moving through the project like a ghost in the granite
Calculated steps on this god forsaken planet
Trust is a luxury that I can never purchase
I see the wolves circling around the brick churches
One hand on the iron one hand on the steering
Waiting for the moment when the silence starts clearing

[Chorus]
(Keep your eyes open)
Reflexes sharp like a blade in the dark
(Watch the blind spots)
One wrong move and you leave a cold mark
(Keep your eyes open)
Tactical living no room for the weak
(Watch the blind spots)
The pavement is hungry and the outlook is bleak

[Verse 2]
Staring through the window of a stolen silver chariot
Trusting only brothers avoid the rope of Iscariot
Cinder block fortress where the sun never settles
Handling the heavy iron grinding down the metals
Every alley is a barrel and the trigger is always itching
Calculated movements while the snitches keep on switching
Numb to the pressure ice water in the arteries
Navigating traps while the reaper starts the parties
Bulletproof logic in a world full of hollows
Lead the pack forward where the reaper always follows
No time for regret when the hammers are clicking
Executing maneuvers while the clock is still ticking
I don't see the stars I just see the exit signs
Walking on the edge of the jagged border lines
Brick walls closing in breathing getting tighter
The heavy smoke rising like a signal from a fighter

[Chorus]
(Keep your eyes open)
Reflexes sharp like a blade in the dark
(Watch the blind spots)
One wrong move and you leave a cold mark
(Keep your eyes open)
Tactical living no room for the weak
(Watch the blind spots)
The pavement is hungry and the outlook is bleak

[Outro]
(Stay sharp)
(Don't blink)
(The brick is watching)
(The iron is heavy)
(No way out)
(Stay sharp)