You miss your baby and her mother
Your little sister and your brother
Don't want to die you cry like what I am
Became a thug to become a man
But thugs just crooks with dirty hands
Took all this to understand
The creds and glam are all a lie
A plot for you to kill and die
It took yourself to find you out
You played the fool without a doubt
Now here you are with no clout
No couth no joy no cause to shout
In the lock-up locked down, down, down
In the lock-up down, down, lock down
Riding herd over dead men
Who only live to kill again
Boss of nothings kings of sin
Searching hard to find a friend
But ain't no friends when you're living dirty
Been born dead and won't reach thirty
Got no chance to make parole
Got no hope of growing old
Dealt bad cards but still can't fold
In the lock-up in the lock-up
This place where life sent you to die
It's what you get for getting high
A place where bad choices force you to stay
A place where tenderness you must slay
If you would see another day
Pray God rescue you from this play
But it's no act it's a gruesome fact
If you survive you're still doomed
Wherever you go there's still this room
Where death is held and is coming soon
You're sorry now you could have bloomed
You hate yourself but yourself you've groomed
For the lock-up lock, lock, lock-up
You're locked down, down, down in the lock-up
But freedom is just a prayer away
Pray help me Lord Jesus find the words to say
I need your Spirit with all my heart
Lead me Lord through the dark
Fish me up into your ark
Hold me so we never part
Uncage me from my reality
And chain me to Your design for me
Lock me up in Your lock down for eternity
God Almighty Jesus Please Help Me!