Prison Blues (Acoustic 2011)

Prison blues, standard issue

Even when our suits ain't blue

We've got shake-downs on the daily

Shanks and rubes and snitches too

Those bars locking on the cell blocks

Warden's yelling down the hall

Boys, you gonna make my prison thicker

Higher, sharper walls

I lift a hammer, hammer's heavy

And let that fall upon a stone

And let that shake these chains that bind me

And build these walls I call my own

I've got scars that poorly mended

And I don't seem to fit no more

Yet I wake myself each morning

Just prepare for what's in store

For what's in store

For what's in store for me

Always me, yeah

Cell tonight is cold as bullets

Keys walk up and down our tier

Tell myself the end is coming soon

To chase away the fear

That same fear that got me drinking

And put these tracks all down my arm

That same fear that's been inside of me

Ever since I was born

So I lift that hammer, hammer's heavy

Let that fall upon the stone

And let that shake these chains that bind me

Build these walls I call my home

I've got scars that poorly mended

And I don't seem to fit no more

Yet I wake myself each morning

Just prepare for what's in store

For me

Please no more for me

So I long for me

Let's start over new

Freedom's just a distant memory

I lose more and more each day

Can't forgive the man inside me

My tranquility is dead

And every day's like every other

Every day's like every other

Every day's like every other

Every day's like

Let me out of here

Let me out of here

Let me out of here now

Let me out of here now

Let me out of here

Let me out of here

I've run my route in here

Knock them down in here

Let me out of here

Let me out of here

Let me be, let me go

No, you won't, you said so

Just let me out of here

Let me out now

Just let me go, far away

I'll never return, not one day

Let me out

'Cause

This hammer's heavy