How can I come up (sitting)

How can I come up (sitting)

How can I come up

From the inside looking out

Sitting in the Harris County Jail

Spending all my little time

Inside looking out

Not driving fancy cars

I'm just staying at bars

And about to lose my mind

Inside looking out

So I get up to take a shower

Funky toes are everywhere

Inside looking out

Saw a trustee eating more than me

And I thought it wasn't fair

Inside looking out

And it hurts right here

Stuck in here for a year

Inside looking out

Sitting in the county

I'm living in an hourglass

Twiddling my fucking thumbs

Waiting on time to pass

Till my next court date

But if you been to the county

You know you're holding your own fate

In your own hands

About to go in front of the judge

Hoping for a chance

To speak out, and just be heard

To put the scene of the crime in your own words

Thinking witness, man, I doubt to my scenario

Maybe now, but I got one shot

So here I go

Right now I can't afford to be locked up

Niggas and the crooks

I keep my dope and that's fucked up

For what I said you know I about to get a gang or time

They found me guilty

And now I'm confined

To an over-crowded cell in the county

For what's my boy said

They billed a hired bounty hunter

To make the most and, you know, stick around

Cause like a beef in the night

I'm damn sure go'n skip town

But who could blame a brother for doing this

I got spotted by a viewer on America’s Most Wanted list

But a nigga like Black, I think not

But for now I'm on the inside looking out

(Sitting in there this kind of jail)

Sane about to lose my mind

Inside looking out

Sitting in the courtroom

I'm staring at the fucking judge

Don't want to plead

Cause I know that I had the drugs

And the justice system is fucked up

Chances of being black and getting off really suck

Cause young black men

Couple of problems

I really

..

My way

Trying to solve them

Because the judge got me

In oppression

Once in a jail cell

Now I learned my lesson

They found me guilty

And sentenced me 20 to life

They found me guilty

And sentenced me 20 to life

I'm reading page by page

Of the Bible every night

Praying to God to forgive me for my sins

Saying to myself that I'll never do it again

Lying to myself

Now ain't that a damn shame

When I get out this bitch

I'll be jumping back in the game

But for now I better do my time

With good behavior

..

Walking through the gate my thoughts shout

Cause I'm on the inside out

Cause I'm on the inside looking out

Feeling bad cause I'm on the inside looking out

(Sitting in there this kind of jail)

Sane about to lose my mind

Inside looking out

..

Back to the mother fuckin stank

Fuck the dumb shit

Cause this time I'm damn sure

Go'n run the tank

Getting swol' .. mother fucker

Thinking about them stank

Ho's coming through this bitch

Dropping niggas by the ankles

And the niggas that's been

Know what I'm talking about

Is my stomach strong enough

To hold this shit

Till I get out

This mother fucker .. me

A chamber full of misfits

Three .. and a cot

Some hard ass bitch gets

The county's a bitch, boy

That's paranoid as a nigga get

Slap the living shit

Out of a nigga for a cigarette

They got me off the street

Although my life was very fucked up

For jacking for cars

Now I'm jacking for commissary

No time to play bully in the county

Ain't no stars, nigga

Trying to squeeze your head

Through the motha fuckin bars

Bitch take the shoes off your feet

Or even worth it trying to hang you

With the motha fuckin bed sheets

Sleep with your eyes open

If you want to see daylight

Cause when I get out this bitch

I'm damn sure go'n go right

Cause coming up on the street

Is what my life was all about

But how can I come up

From the inside looking out?

Inside looking out