Story Behind The Song
As a writer and musician I try to cover all styles of genre and what got me started on this project was the contest about prisons ... I didn't make the deadline ... because I couldn't decide the approach ... Country or Blues ..as most will tell you, th
Song Description
experience in or out of prison ... flash-backs
| Song Length |
3:15 |
Genre |
Rap - Hip Hop, Blues - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Subject |
Prison, General |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
There's Shackles and Chains ... Steel Doors ... Iron Bars
Screams in the day ...You'll learn ... What they are
Cries in the night ... Heard thru concrete walls
As girls are made from men ... Another victim falls
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Days become your nights ... and nights become your days
You keep your thoughts to yourself ... and watch what you say
Don't try and make friends ... or repeat what you hear
Keep your eyes on your back ... Never showing any fear
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You're a person without meaning ... do exactly as your told
When to eat ... Where to sleep ... in this razor wired hell hole
There's gaurds to rule your body ... But they can't control your mind
It's called rehabilitation ... while your serving out your time
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To think about the reasons ... your freedoms ... in a cage
Was it money, Drugs or passion ... Peer pressure ... sudden rage
Reactions to depression .... you've watched the others fall
Prison lessons of survival ... Will make killers of of all
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Those questions with no answers ... keep rolling in your brain
Your reason ... Why you did ... Whats been done ... to late to change
There's no escaping from the truth ... beyond these prison walls
Are repeated day and night ... as another victim falls
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Ther's that high you can't remember ... that money hungry low
the people that you hurt ... you never got to know
Caring only for desires ... not the damage that you caused
For what goes around ... comes back again ... nside thes prison walls
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You're now the victim of the crime you've done ... with no place to hide
You go to follow all the rules ... keep your cool ... to survive
While tormented pleas ... still echo thru the halls
Cause living without freedom ... will make killers of us all
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With tw-thirds of your time now done ... your up for parole
Whats your chances you'll be back again ... inside this fence hell hole
You'll never be a free man ... even though you've served your time
What's not tattooed on your body .... is burned into your mind
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of those Shackles and Chains ... Steel doors ... Iron Bars
Screams in the night ... You know ... What they are
Cries in the night ... heard thru concrete wall
As girls are made from men ... another victim falls
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