Dillinger Four - Shut Your Trap *a Song For Jake* lyrics

I KNOW IT扴 HARD TO BELIEVE BUT PART OF ME WAS SCARED TO LEAVE

THEY WERE SO CONCERNED WITH WHAT I DESERVED

THEY NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT I扗 NEED

AND I KNOW MY FRIENDS FROM HIGH SCHOOL

ARE DROPPING MY NAME BECAUSE THEY THINK IT扴 SO COOL

THAT IM CAUGHT IN A CAGE MATCH RUN BY THE STATE

WITH MIDDLE-AGED MEN WHISPERING SOFTLY ABOUT RAPE

WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE ME, WHERE SHOULD I GO

TRAPPED WITH WORSE EVILS THAN I扸E EVER KNOWN

THINK OF WHAT YOU HAD SEEN WHEN YOU WERE 16

THAN THINK OF ME

NOW I扢 JUST A GUY WHO扴 GOT HALF HIS TIME TO GO

IF GOOD BEHAVIOR MEANS A TWO-YEAR SHOW

OTHER CONS ARE TALKING ABOUT ME NOW THEY CALL ME THE KID

AND THE JUDGE WHO SENT ME UP MADE A GOOD IMPRESSION

FOR THE NEXT ELECTION

BUT WHAT THE MEDIA WON扵 SAY IS EVEN WITH MY FREEDOM

I STILL WOULDN扵 BE OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE AGAINST HIM

SOME NIGHTS ALL I COULD DO WAS SIT AND CRY

IS THIS WHAT THEY WANT OR DO THEY WANT ME TO DIE?

IF THAT扴 THE CASE, SPARK UP THE CHAIR, TAPE UP MY FACE

KILL ME RIGHT HERE, BECAUSE I CAN扵 TAKE THIS LIVING IN FEAR

AND WHAT I扢 GETTING OUT OF THIS HAS NEVER MAD IT SELF CLEAR

AS A FREE MAN I HAD TO FIGHT WHAT THEY TAUGHT ME

PARANOIA AND CONSTANT BIGOTRY

A MIND-SET DESIGNED AND PROVIDED JUST TO HOLD ME DOWN

WHERE RESPECT CAME ONLY THROUGH INTIMIDATION

SO I扢 ALWAYS EXPECTING A CONFRONTATION

APPARENTLY THIS IS WHAT THEY CALL REHABILITATION.