Doing Time

Album: Hail to the King (2013)
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  • The lives of some men
    If walls can taught to spills the lies
    We'll see the world through devil's eyes

    I maintain an addiction
    Been known to take it too high
    I gotta a inch with a loaded head trigger
    And a one way ticket to fly

    When there's no writing on the wall
    I see the lifeless devils start to crawl
    And I don't need no lessons
    After all
    Everybody's doing their time

    Caught your eye in the corner,
    Don't you look at me wrong
    Fucked up and thrown into the gutter,
    gotta fix what don't belong

    I see the writing on the wall
    I see the lifeless devils start to crawl
    And I don't need no lessons
    After all
    Everybody's doing their time

    That's just a price to play
    So tell me what you like
    Gotta hand on the kerosene match tonight, right

    Had enough of opinions
    I got enough on my mind
    Sell your soul for approval and a dollar
    Got a pretty little body to grind

    I see your number on the wall
    I see the lifeless devils start to crawl
    I don't need no lessons
    Watch the fall
    You lost my attention
    After all
    Everybody's doing their time, time Writer/s: BRIAN HANER, JONATHAN SEWARD, MATTHEW SANDERS, ZACHARY BAKER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Your Grace Carter from Cincinnati Such a GNR feel to this song. Love it!!
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