Welcome to central booking/ Inmate worker looking, old school in the corner banana pudding/ You are now in intake where most of these men break/ find out ya friends fake, wind up with ten straight/ public defender such a pretender/ leave a nigga stuck without much to surrender/ Ya spring, fall, summer, turn into winter/ next thing you know you done missed a couple Decembers/ First they monitor all of ya monetary/ then they make commission off all of ya commissary/ Cats beefing with rats no Tom and Jerry/ Twenty years perfect attendance that's honorary/ It's f*cked up he grew up no male figure/ when they calling names for envelopes no mail, figures/ All them so called niggas and real guys/ telling them real lies, that's when ya realize/
I'm just a prisoner
You used to sell weight, now you just a cell mate/ for all them devilish ways you on a hell date/ No escaping this, this ain't no Shawshank/ get shanked for what you saw from niggas who call rank/ you had that sheet rock but wasn't no wall paint/ learned how to turn keys but wasn't no car cranked/ you used to see o's now its just CO's/ shirts free the bro from all of ya peeps shows/ gave you papers wasn't for weed though/ now you up shits creek stuck pissing for Po's/ you report late that's another court date/ them VOP's will have you taking a short break/ Your baby moms at home with three childs/ she hanging up the phone you trying to redial/ that boy fought it he thought he could beat trial/ got bars off the top of the head no freestyle/ I know this info may seem intense/ but you'll know what I mean soon as you seen the fence/ they made him lose contact after fingerprints/ they saw him convicted and they ain't seen him since/ don't make no sense how much they miss him/ ain't even get to kiss him before he became victim/ he took the bait too late somebody fished him/ can't get off the hook he in the system
Won't somebody help me why won't they take these chains off me
Won't somebody help me why won't they take these chains off me
Won't somebody help me why won't they take these chains off me