Lock It Down

Intro

Ayy, ha, yeah (skrrt), listen up

Heartbeat tempo, fingers on the tempo (uh) — let's go

Verse

I spit quick, sick with a cadence like a match strike, match light, match night, watch the facts rise

Flash signs — pain packaged, panic in a packed aisle, families fold like flats, stage fright

Politics play ping-pong on the pavement, plates spill, plates pile, plates white

Kids in classrooms counting ceilings, counting reasons why we can’t sleep at night (no)

Trigger tales travel faster than the trumpet, trumpet blare, trumped-up truth in headlines

Gun glass shatters, glass fragments linger on the floor — fingerprints of fine lines

Lobbyists laugh while mothers mend the margins of their memories (mend, mend)

We bargain for safety with a coupon of excuses — that's malpractice in the mainframe

Clip clicks empty syllables in sermons, sermon-sayers say "it's rights, it's rights"

But rights don't ride alone, they come with rules, with checks, with light — hold tight

I got a ledger of ledger-less laws, loopholes like ladders up to lethal heights

We're building monuments to momentum but burying bodies under billboards of white

Say "freedom" with a flash of brass — but where's the freedom when your kid can't play? (where?)

Where's the freedom when the playground is a perimeter, perimeter chalk lines? (no)

We need measures, measures like medicine — not melodrama that masks the signs

Regulate the reach, educate the hands, elevate the peace, demand design (ayy)

This ain’t anti — it's pro-life, pro-living, pro-morning, pro-sleepin' at night (uh-huh)

Pre-chorus

No villain or angel, just people counting losses, counting costs (count it)

We want less sirens, more silence — less headlines, more small-talk

Chorus

Lock it down, lock it down, lock it down (lock it), yeah (yeah)

Keep it safe, keep it safe, keep it safe (keep it), uh (uh)

Hold the line, hold the line, hold the line (hold on), ayy (ayy)

Save the lives, save the lives, save the lives (save 'em), yeah (yeah)

Lock it down, lock it down, lock it down (lock it), yeah (yeah)

Keep it safe, keep it safe, keep it safe (keep it), uh (uh)

Hold the line, hold the line, hold the line (hold on), ayy (ayy)

Save the lives, save the lives, save the lives (save 'em), yeah (yeah)

Verse

Fast talk, fast walks through red tape, red tape like rubber bands snapping on the plan

They stall, they stall — meanwhile funerals fill calendars, empty chairs, empty hands

I rhyme for the restless moms who read reports like recipes for grief (read it)

For the dads who sleep in chairs at hospitals, trading breathing for belief

Policy with potholes — drive slow, watch the kids fall into cracks

We need checkpoints, checkpoints, background checks not just PR attacks

Education, storage, standards — staple words into statutes, stamp 'em tight

Mandatory safety, mandatory checks, mandatory training in the night (train)

Make