Jail Like Hell

intro

Yeah... look... Free the boys, man. Real pain, you know how that goes.

Verse 1

Staring at these cold steel walls, pacing round a blank ceiling

Collect calls dropping out, leaving all this heavy feeling

Judge handed down a number and it hit me like a freight train

Stuck inside a concrete box while my city's drowned in pain

Mama calling on the line, crying saying bills are getting high

And I'm trapped inside a six-by-nine just asking God the reason why

Had to sit back helpless while my family needed bread

Countless sleepless nights with these demons in my head

They traded out the loyalty for petty little clout

Left me locked down in the dark while I'm tryna figure out

How the ones I grew up with are splitting at the seams

Waking up in nightmares when we used to chase the dreams

I can hear the guards walking, keys jingling on the tier

But the loudest sound is silence when you're trapped inside your fear

Can't even send a dollar to protect my mama's home

The hardest part of prison is you're suffering alone.

Chorus

And the rain keeps falling on my city while I'm locked away

Lord knows I'd give it all just for one more day

To save my brothers from the streets, to fix my mama's tears

But I'm just trapped inside a cell counting down the years

Yeah, they see the flashing lights but they don't know the cost

Buried in the system while I'm mourning what I lost.

Verse 2

Got a letter in the mail, ink is smudged across the page

Telling me that Turk didn't even make his age

Shot him on the corner where we used to pitch the pack

Cold world, damn, ain't no way of bringing my brother back

Then another FaceTime from a number that I dread

"C-Murph passed away, man, they left him for the dead"

And I couldn't grab a strap, I couldn't slide or run or hide

Just a grown man sitting on a steel bunk, tryna cry

Hating every second that I'm locked up in this cage

Punching up the brick till the blood is on the page

Lost the brothers that I vowed that I'd put on the map

Now I'm reading obituaries from inside a trap

They put him in a casket while I'm stuck behind a grill

The streets don't ever pause just because your time is still

Two phone calls back-to-back, another homie gone

Can't even shed a tear because the weakness shows in stone.

Chorus

And the rain keeps falling on my city while I'm locked away

Lord knows I'd give it all just for one more day

To save my brothers from the streets, to fix my mama's tears

But I'm just trapped inside a cell counting down the years

Yeah, they see the flashing lights but they don't know the cost

Buried in the system while I'm mourning what I lost.

Verse 3

Now the appeal coming up, tryna fight a losing case

Staring through the glass at my mama's tired face

She said, "Baby, keep your head up, we are surviving here"

While I'm tasting all the salt from a locked-away tear

They thought the money and the status made me bulletproof

Never knew the isolation was the hardest truth

Lost my dawgs to the streets while the system held me down

Couldn't send a blessing, couldn't make it to the town

To bury my own blood, to protect the ones I love

Now I'm looking for some answers from the man up above

From a cell in the dark to the graves in the dirt

This is more than just rap—this is generational hurt

They see the jewelry and the chains but they don't see the scars

A million miles away while I'm looking through these bars

Lord, cover my family cause I failed 'em from the inside

Just another broken soul swallowed by his own pride.

Chorus

And the rain keeps falling on my city while I'm locked away

Lord knows I'd give it all just for one more day

To save my brothers from the streets, to fix my mama's tears

But I'm just trapped inside a cell counting down the years

Yeah, they see the flashing lights but they don't know the cost

Buried in the system while I'm mourning what I lost.

outro

Yeah... they see the ice but they don't see the pain.

Locked in a cage while my brothers die in the rain.

Can't even be there for my mama when she needs me most.

Just a ghost behind these bars...

Long live Turk. Long live C-Murph.

Free the guys. Free my soul.