We Had to Get Out

Intro

Yeah... Cesar, Diego, we had to move

Max gone, but the beat still groove

Verse

Cousin Cesar on the block with the heavy eyes

Brother Diego duckin’ shots under gray skies

Sirens singin’ every night like a lullaby

We was tryna stay alive, just a couple guys

Then the shots rang out, bodies on the ground

Whole street turned quiet, not a single sound

Max pulled that trigger, said he had to ride

Now he sittin’ in a cell while the rest of us cried

We was boxed in, no way to breathe

Every corner had a reaper waitin’ on the sleeve

Cesar said “we gotta find another lane”

Diego nodded, “music gon’ carry the pain”

Chorus

We had to get out, had to get out

Turned the struggle into sound, turned the pain to a shout

We had to get out, had to get out

Music pulled us from the dark, now we free no doubt

(Out, out)

(Out, out)

Verse

Max was wild, everybody knew the name

One wrong move and the whole world changed

He took that shot, now he locked away

Left us standin’ in the rain with nothin’ left to say

Cesar started hummin’ beats in the stairwell

Diego wrote the words like he castin’ spells

We recorded in the kitchen with a cheap mic

Turned the gunshots into hooks that hit right

Every verse we spit was a ticket out the trap

Every chorus we sang made the demons step back

From the same streets where the bullets used to fly

We built a ladder made of rhythm to the sky

Chorus

We had to get out, had to get out

Turned the struggle into sound, turned the pain to a shout

We had to get out, had to get out

Music pulled us from the dark, now we free no doubt

(Out, out)

(Out, out)

Bridge

Cesar still here, Diego by my side

Max in the system but we carry his pride

We don’t glorify the fire that we walked through

We just sing so the next ones don’t have to

Chorus

We had to get out, had to get out

Turned the struggle into sound, turned the pain to a shout

We had to get out, had to get out

Music pulled us from the dark, now we free no doubt

(Out, out)

(Out, out)

Outro

Yeah... Cesar, Diego, we made it through

Max, we still play for you