Hold up the firing line
Hold up the fire
Walk away counting backwards from nine

Hold up the firing line
Hold steady on the trigger's time
Walk away counting backwards from nine
Holdin' his breath so to start his own dying

Time, Time served
To the ones that left you here

No people here, only names
Soon to be put to numbers so its one in the same
It's anyone's game as long as the fire flickers
The throat stickers, they place their bet
The trouble is that no one's added it up quite yet
Cause when they do, when they do, when they do, when they do
it'll be a
Riot and the wire is down
Hold up for the fury to sound
Hold up your head from the ground
Or they'll keep you on it

Your time, time served
To the ones who left you here

From tower to wall to guard to guard to wall
Ever ready for the fire to fall
The confinees haven't seen the sun since
The lifers let go of their irrelevant innocence

But long before a single round was shot
Word spread form block to block to cell block
They're going to take him
And make an example of him for the escapees to fear

The incoming of the
Incoming of the gun
Oncoming another year
You either die on the inside or trying to get out
The choice is yours, the choice is here

Time served
To the ones who left you here
Time served
To the ones who left you here

I'd like to jettison your medicine
back to where you came from
you keep your bell and edison
away from my grandson
stand son on your own bone
don't forget the home that you come from
don't let them say your name wrong

just like larry I'll take it to the hoop
make one false move in one fell swoop
and then I pass it to the trigger man
bow down to the sound if you still can

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I got my beautiful dutiful cargo 250

plenty of misshalls and plenty of cat calls
and I can attest to the rest of the best stalls
but never have I ever made a match with sickness
look both ways and dispatch with a quickness

gimme some roy and gimme some speed
gather all around to the world and read on
til you get to the part that's righteous
it's an unbearable likeness

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I got my beautiful dutiful cargo 250

headlights
highways
your life collides with mine

leavin' our shoes behind
we cross the water
our words flow
from mouth to mouth
like fish seeking dark places
the mist covers our traces covers our faces

headlights
highways
your life collides with mine

we're stepping into shelter
movin out of shadow
we made some wrong moves
along the way
oh we might have strayed
will I forget your face
and your fluid gait
or will I stare into the stillness
this is where I miss you
so long
th what's done
how come we've gone
so much time's been wasted
so many thoughts been lost on you

headlights
highways
your life collides with mine

cold wind rushes
down on my face
smoke heats the black throat
of the chimney

the door is open
come on inside...

the furrowed bed of sand worries again
as it had before, waves left the land.
for the falling leaves the child weepeing alone,
he's letting go of the anchor and all the lines...
waiting for the fingers of the grey wave
of his mother's hand to roll over him
with endless water... 10,000 bridges
show me father.
now I'm older, now much older
and this wake can take me out to sea.
and this wake can take me out to sea.
I can see her, she is calling me
I can feel her there...I can feel her there.
waiting for the fingers of the grey wave
or his mother's hand to roll over him
with endless water... 10,000 bridges
show me father

 

come now to the edge of the room
you can see them all crowdin' around
soon they'll come in and come up here

let them find an effigy
but they'll never find me
head man I live to see you roll away

they'll never ever ever find me
they'll never ever ever find me

head man, walkig, right infront of me
don't you, look in, I'm not here you see
dead man told me wher I am to hide
said he's waitin' there, where it's all

even...
you can feel them coming
up through your heels

outside misconstructed the search continues
the hidden afraid are never betrayed
by the already gound and taken away

oh and in a different place
the hands that hold your face
are only trying only tryin' to keep you warm

they'll never ever ever find me
they'll never ever ever find me

hedman, walking, right in front of me
don't you, look in, I'm not here you see
deadman told me where I am to hide
said he's waitin thre, where it's all

even...

walk on, will we, walk on
with our heads to the wall
let them find taht they'll never find us all
hey I wanted a life less hidden
they wanted a life but I'll never give them

part of me...
part of me...

I will save my right
so hard to the ground
til we lay down
til we lay ourselves down