Alabama Department of Corrections Meditation Blues

I killed a man to get in here
 And here I ll be for life
 Hardest of the hardest men
 Step aside when I walk by
 I was born an angry man
 This is all I know
 I gave up on the human kind
 A long, long time ago
 Then one day a man came round
 Put us to the test
 Like Jesus in the wilderness
 I thought that man was crazy
 Two days on and on
 Three days in the walls came down
 And all my pain was gone
 A long time I was dying
 Blind but now I see
 Locked up here for all my days
 I am finally free
 Alabama here we rest
 Live in light and peacefulness