Nas, Ronald Isley - Project Windows lyrics

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 puff puff, hit it up puff
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 gas 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
Seventies 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