Prisoner 1 & 2

Album: Tetsuo and Youth (2015)
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  • Mislaid plan make a mess made
    Damnation, let's play hands and spades
    That's without, a boycott and a sit-out
    Afro-Black pick in with a fist out
    From the "welcome home" to the kick out
    Reach into a rabbit, pull a trick out
    Preacher preaching to a faggot with his dick out
    Hard times call for armed time
    Sick, sick, sick eyes from the nose pressure
    Police snip, zip ties on the protesters
    Six wives in the fry of a molester
    Met him at a caviar bar out in Odessa
    Dirty needles breaking all the old records
    A hundred hoes, one shovel and some old treasure
    Ole Zeke use teeth as a gold tester
    Finger rolls, finger waves, closet full of old leathers
    Old sweaters, old boots, that's a whole suit for some cold weather
    New sale, two L's and some old letters
    Now he doing double life, while she lead a double life
    Man, he need another wife
    New approach might help a nigga bowl better
    New hoes might help a nigga hold together
    Or will the new lane lead em' to the same pen
    And the hunger strike in em' to the same tin

    Love is looking over various errors
    And hate is habitually accelerating terror
    I just wanna be collected when I call God damn
    I don't wanna be accepted not as all as I am
    Visitor, visitor, prisoner, prisoner, land

    Getting slammed from the protest, no food
    Force fed him like OB with a nose tube
    Visions say consult the yogi with the gold shoes
    With the Rollie going bowling for the old school
    I need more for the Michaels
    That's a loss for the class, and a score for the rifles
    Three hots and a cot, and some cops
    Trying to find dinosaurs in the Bible
    It's all quiet in the jail-house
    Then they ride in to find the empty cells out
    They was looking for the swords, they was looking for the swords
    I'm just looking at they feet, cause I'm looking for the lord
    Looking in the library, looking at the law
    10 years deep, now I'm looking at the bar
    Claim sovereignty, because I'm bunkin' with the morons
    They degenerate, they ain't looking at the game
    They just looking at the scores, they be putting on my books
    Cause I'm looking at the stars, trade a shank for some crank
    Now I'm looking at a war, BGF got the yard
    AV got the kitchen snitches on PC
    Eminem on a mission, but CO's got the prison
    God got us all, God set us free
    God is the key, but the guards got the doors

    Love is looking over various errors
    And hate is habitually accelerating terror
    I just wanna be collected when I call God damn
    I don't wanna be accepted not as all as I am
    Visitor, visitor, prisoner, prisoner, land

    Punching on the glass, stare at some killer
    Might fuck him in the ass
    Staff getting rigid, wasn't gonna take away the visits
    Segregate niggas by theyself and make 'em stay with it
    Wicked, swung the shank around on a mop string
    They had to pull him out the cell with a SWAT Team
    That's a cop team, they sent hella cops, to stop, the helicoptering
    Man, he thought that he'd fly away, like a kite, take flight
    Like a letter on a string, like propellers on a wing
    But they can't find the key
    They made electric chairs for his dying days
    Last meals, no appeals for him to try and stay
    On Death Row like Suge and the late Pac
    Maybe he could dig a tunnel out of A Block
    And wear gloves for the razor-wired gate top
    Scared thugs going crazy in a caged box
    Looking at the world through the TV
    And they gone, rapping over beats from the tabletops
    Ay! That's how it is in a police state
    When your life is just a number and release date
    When you're rehabilitated so correctly
    And let's hope that's how you're living when you're set free

    Love is looking over various errors
    And hate is habitually accelerating terror
    I just wanna be collected when I call God damn
    I don't wanna be accepted not as all as I am
    Visitor, visitor, prisoner, prisoner, land

    They sell they souls
    They sell they selves
    They ain't twelve, they old
    Niggas old as hell
    Old as jail, old as cells
    Sold so much salt, ain't no more salt on the shelves
    You a prisoner too, you living here too
    You just like us, til' your shift get through
    You could look like us, you know shit get through
    You should be in cuffs like us, you should get strike 2
    You should get like life, you should get like woo!
    You should get that twice! You should get refused
    The open road, that's no parole, and no control
    Over your own soul, so control, your own remote control, that your folks can hold

    You better watch these niggas (en garde)
    If it was up to me, I would never unlock these niggas
    Wouldn't rehabilitate, man, I would just box these niggas and throw away the key
    I'd throw away the key like the coast guard watching me
    (I'd throw away the keys)
    You better watch these niggas (en garde)
    If it was up to me, I would never unlock these niggas
    Wouldn't rehabilitate, man, I would just box these niggas and throw away the key
    I'd throw away the key like the coast guard watching me
    (I'd throw away the keys)

    Better watch these niggas (en garde)

    5th year with the DOC
    You can see what's CO see
    Robocop opt his COP
    3 hots and a C-O-T
    Lived in a small town, his whole life
    Never left, soundin' like the hole, right?
    Either working at the prison, or it's no lights
    In the system working with the pol-ice
    In the prison stripping niggas for rights
    Got a malice, on the other side of the bars
    Watching niggas get smart, watching niggas get strong
    Watching niggas get home, he jealous
    But deep down he jealous
    With each sweep down, he tell us
    With each peep down, he help us
    Wrong one gon' knock his ass out though
    It's why he gotta lock all the niggas out for
    Warden told the boy he better calm down
    Step back from the brink and put the bomb down
    But how the whole world in your palm sound?
    It's why they treat niggas like shit
    Writing raps to the taps, keep the face mask on 'em these niggas might spit!

    You better watch these niggas (en garde)
    If it was up to me, I would never unlock these niggas
    Wouldn't rehabilitate, man, I would just box these niggas and throw away the key
    I'd throw away the key like the coast guard watching me
    (I'd throw away the keys)
    You better watch these niggas (en garde)
    If it was up to me, I would never unlock these niggas
    Wouldn't rehabilitate, man, I would just box these niggas and throw away the key
    I'd throw away the key like the coast guard watching me
    (I'd throw away the keys)

    You better watch these niggas (en garde) Writer/s: MAURICE THOMAS, WASALU JACO
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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