Neil Young - Time Off For Good Behavior lyrics

Time Off For Good Behavior

Neil Young

My brother went to prison

He's in Kingston doin' time

He got seven years for sellin'

What I've been smokin' all my life

Time off for good behavior

But the boy don't feel too good

Locked behind those steel bars

I don't know if he should

Yeh a few years ago they called me

Back home to get a big award

They also called my brother

But they made him say "My Lord"

They locked me up in a Hall of Fame

And threw away the keys

But when they put my brother away

It really did somethin' to me

Now I'm guilty as hell for sayin'

"Boy you better go back home"

You know you'll

get a fair shake there

We're running all alone

When he called me up

from the border

With the Mounties on his tail

I said go back to Canada

We can raise the bail

Now I get these letters

From a cell with no TV

He says he's outside one hour

And inside twenty three

Time off for good behavior

But the boy don't feel too good

Locked behind those steel bars

I don't know if he should

Now I'm guilty as hell for sayin'

"Boy you better go back home"

You know you'll

get a fair shake there

We're running all alone

When he called me up

from the border

With the Mounties on his tail

I said go back to Canada

We can raise the bail

My brother went to prison

He's in Kingston doin' time

He got seven years for sellin'

What I've been smokin' all my life