Inside Looking Out

How can I come up (sitting)
 How can I come up (sitting)
 How can I come up,
 From the inside looking out
 Sitting in there this kind of jail
 Spending all my little time
 My driving faster cars
 I'm just staying at bars
 And about to lose my mind
 So I get up to take a shower
 For . are everywhere
 Saw a trustee eating more than me
 And I thought it wasn't fair
 And it hurts right here
 Stuck in here for a year
 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
 But for now I'm on the inside looking out
 (Sitting in there this kind of jail)
 Sane about to lose my mind
 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
 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.