I Got A Letter From The Government



The Other Day



I Opened And Read It



It Said They Were Suckers



They Wanted Me For Their Army Or Whatever



Picture Me Given' A Damn I Said Never



Here Is A Land That Never Gave A Damn



About A Brother Like Me And Myself



Because They Never Did



I Wasn't Wit' It But Just That Very Minute...



It Occured To Me



The Suckers Had Authority



Cold Sweatin' As I Dwell In My Cell



How Long Has It Been?



They Got Me Sittin' In The State Pen



I Gotta Get Out - But That Thought Was Thought Before



I Contemplated A Plan On The Cell Floor



I'm Not A Fugitive On The Run



But A Brother Like Me Begun - To Be Another One



Public Enemy Servin' Time - They Drew The Line Y'all



To Criticize Me Some Crime - Never The Less



They Could Not Understand That I'm A Black Man



And I Could Never Be A Veteran



On The Strength, The Situation's Unreal



I Got A Raw Deal, So I'm Goin' For The Steel




They Got Me Rottin' In The Time That I'm Servin'



Tellin' You What Happened The Same Time They're Throwin'



4 Of Us Packed In A Cell Like Slaves - Oh Well



The Same Motherfucker Got Us Livin' Is His Hell



You Have To Realize - What Its A Form Of Slavery



Organized Under A Swarm Of Devils



Straight Up - Word'em Up On The Level



The Reasons Are Several, Most Of Them Federal



Here Is My Plan Anyway And I Say



I Got Gusto, But Only Some I Can Trust - Yo



Some Do A Bid From 1 To 10



And I Never Did, And Plus I Never Been



I'm On A Tier Where No Tears Should Ever Fall



Cell Block And Locked - I Never Clock It Y'all



'Cause Time And Time Again Time



They Got Me Serv