Like a dog in a cage
On a bed made of stone
Days darker than night
Leaves a chill in your bones
I did a dime in the blues
Hard time on my heart
Bars on the door
Barbed wire in the yard
Papers in hand
Inmate discharged
Thrown to the wolves
Bag of clothes in my arm
Address on a page
A place to make a new start
But it's so hard to change
When you know who you are
The path I've been down
I try not to retrace
But there's nowhere to turn
They're just holding my place
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Hate conquer love
Was all I'd ever seen
More easy to drown
Than swimming upstream
So I slipped through the cracks
With the busted and broke
Foregone conclusion
The butt of the joke
And the picture that's drawn
Well I try to erase
But it's carved into stone
They're just holding my place
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Sitting here now
With no shackles and chains
But it's a matter of time
'Till they bind me again
'Cause I tried to find faith
Tried to find truth
But some folks are no good
I guess I'm living proof
When they take me back in
Well they'll just close the case
We've seen this one before
We've been holding his place
And the picture that's drawn
Well I try to erase
But it's carved into stone
They're just holding my place