Put on a suit and comb my hair

Pop a pill for my condition

Mount assembly line, be processed

Be a number in the system

Wait in line to get my ration

It's an endless repetition

God, I hope that no one heard me

When I worded what I felt

"Get another lawyer"

Sadly, I'm in no position

This one doesn't care at all

Even by his own admission

Court got chairs of solid steel

Just to prepare your ass for prison

How I wish I'd been born rich

When I count the cards that I've been dealt

They set you up

Before they take you down

All these crooked politicians

They're enough to go around

Different tie or degree

But they all seem the same to me

Breaking out of prison

This is not what I envisioned

If I'd had a say there would've been

An easier decision

I had plans and I had hopes

I had dreams, I had ambition

But they locked me up in solitary

And left me there for dead

But they set you up

Before they take you down

All these crooked politicians

They're enough to go around

Different tie or degree

But they all seem the same to me

If only I'd been loveable

If the world had been a little more colorful

Then maybe I'd see these walls from the other side

If only I'd been loveable

If the world had been a little more colorful

Then maybe I could reach the stars tonight

But they set you up

Before they take you down

All these crooked politicians

They're enough to go around

Different tie or degree

But they all seem the same to me

Yeah, they set you up

Before they tear your ass down

They put taxes upon taxes

Or run democracy into the ground

Different kinds of decree

But they all seem the same to me

Different colors indeed

But they all look the same to me

And I've heard it all before

They oughta be a different breed

'Cause they all seem the same to me

If only I'd been loveable

If only I'd been loveable

If only I'd been...