T-Isaam - Lock Down lyrics

[ VERSE 1: T-Isaam ] Now they're takin me to part D Cell number 461, gee With nothin but some blues and some flip-flops One blanket and a mattress hard as rocks Headed to the dwellings of the felons Nothin but murderers and drug sellers But as I walk through I don't feel bad Cause I see a lotta homies from the pad So I know if anything goes down That I'm down with every n***a in the compound And everybody's askin me, "What's up Why they got T-Isaam in handcuffs?" Most figure it's the drug bust Cause they figure that I'm out slingin dust And a n***a must've slipped up Or got tripped up, damn I should've dipped up But now it's too late for second-guessin And maybe this time I'll learn my lesson Change my life and make a turnaround But that's what you think when you're headed to lock down [ VERSE 2: T-Isaam ] When I was on the right track I found the right track wasn't nothin but the white track My mama didn't raise me that way The white folks made me that way n***a this, n***a that is all I heard Now n***a is a everyday word It is hard for me to understand Why I'm usin it more than the white man Damn, I'm even thinkin like them But unlike them my future's lookin dim No hope in the system, so I diss em And don't a**ociate with em Just stay in my shell of livin hell That's all I can do when I dwell In lock down [ VERSE 3: T-Isaam ] I wish I could go home Back to the streets where a n***a used to roam Pimp daddy's in the Brougham 30s or low's, get the hoes, and so on And things were goin swell Just bought a new Jeep and turned on the cell But now I'm in a real cell And Ma Bell can't pay a n***a's bail So I'm stuck in this rut till I make a plea Not guilty, and maybe I'll go free And live the life of a wife and a picket fence White fence, now I'm back to feelin tense About the messed up system that I'm livin in So I'm back again In lock down