went to jail

Verse 1

Just a kid with nowhere to be

Empty pockets and a restless heart

Streetlights hummed above the trees

City held me till it fell apart

Pre-Chorus

Something in the air that night

Wrong place wrong time wrong crowd

Never said a word but that was fine

They took my name and wore it loud

Chorus

I went to jail for nothing

Nothing at all

Locked the door and threw the key

On the wrong side of the law

I went to jail for nothing

Nothing I did

Just a kid with nothing to do

And they made me pay for it

Post-Chorus

Nothing nothing nothing

Nothing at all

Nothing nothing nothing

On the wrong side of the law

Verse 2

Concrete walls and bracken light

One cold phone call I never made

Guards all looked right through the night

My whole life crammed in a decade

Pre-Chorus

Mama cried when they let me out

Said boy what did you do

I swore on every honest doubt

I was just in the wrong place too

Chorus

I went to jail for nothing

Nothing at all

Locked the door and threw the key

On the wrong side of the law

I went to jail for nothing

Nothing I did

Just a kid with nothing to do

And they made me pay for it

Bridge

They'll never hand the years back

They'll never say they're wrong

Just a number in a workbook

And a kid who sang along

Chorus

I went to jail for nothing

Nothing at all

Locked the door and threw the key

On the wrong side of the law

I went to jail for nothing

Nothing I did

Just a kid with nothing to do

And they made me pay for it