Murder, drugs, cash, and greed

It touches everyone and everything

Within the walls there's no escaping the disease

Sidwalks turn to pharmacies

All the pimps and pushers territories

Dollars pouring in from the victims trapped within

Schoolyard's a place of sorrow

Pray your children live to see tomorrow

A place where mothers cry, and kiss their dying sons goodbye

Living in a state of fear

Afraid of everything they see or hear

Someone they love may get shot

For drugs they never even bought!



Violence is a way of life

Revenge delivered with a gun or knife

Paybacks are a bitch

They'll leave you dying in a ditch

Caught in the hypnotic spell

Their life's story they'll never life to tell

In a hazy curtain, they can't see the end is certain

Imprisoned by narcotic chains

Life for some will never be the same

Trapped in walls of glass

Hoping that this all will pass

But some will find their way outside

Face the evil, eyes open wide

Break the bonds that pull you in

Escape the hell that thrives...



Within the walls

Of chaos and despair

Most are unemployed

Living on welfare

Prowling the halls

The vultures come to feed

On the flesh of those

Who are enslaved to the need

The final curtain falls

And no one sheds a fear

Their pleas for help always seem to fall

Upon deaf ears

Within the walls of chaos they forgot

That dignity and sanity

Are things that can't be bought



With every passing day

Another life is cast astray

Wear the wrong colors

And you might get blown away



Turn of a page

Another name's crossed off the list

Shot between the eyes

With a rig clenched in his fist



Driven to the grave

Ruled by need for kicks

Extract their own gold teeth

To satisfy their fix



There's cracks in the foundation

The time will soon arrive

When the walls will crumble down

And bury everyone alive!



Within the walls...

Within the walls of chaos...

Within the walls...

Within the walls of chaos...

Within the walls...

Within the walls of chaos!