[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:11.57]I was sitting on the couch reading yellow paper [00:14.68]A letter in reply [00:15.95]7 days later after I wrote 'em [00:18.90]"Stay strong  keep your faith in God " what I told him [00:21.78]Hoping that he's listening [00:23.20]Said that they tried to give him [00:24.79]Like a hundred years [00:26.26]What a coincidence  I was bumping some Plies [00:29.63]I can taste the salt from my tears [00:32.15]As the water had start to flood on my eyes [00:34.37]I know it gotta be hard being 21 [00:37.94]Doing time in the pen and your Gram's old [00:40.01]Your brother's getting older [00:41.14]And the streets is getting colder [00:42.90]And your hoping [00:43.59]That he's focused to stay on the right road [00:45.84]Sleeping in a cell  it's been 30 weeks [00:48.47]Ain't recieved any mail [00:49.80]It's cold and the hole stinks [00:51.46]And you can't even blink without niggas testing your life [00:54.15]As I read every word that you write  I can only imagine [00:59.92]Jason Keaton  I can only imagine [01:09.63]Life's about decisions man [01:12.00]It's in your hand and you got it [01:15.10]Just take control if you can [01:17.58]It's in your hand and you got it [01:20.29]Sitting on the couch  that was my Uncle Bobby [01:23.03]After he just got out  15 years to count [01:25.47]Haven't seen the world in so long [01:27.29]Haven't seen a girl in so long [01:29.53]And before the sun came up  he was gone [01:31.89]Like a fiend off the best rock [01:33.49]Trying to get his life together  or what not [01:36.78]Typed his name in the system [01:38.15]And they couldn't find his identity [01:39.79]Got it straight  got a place [01:41.36]Found some serenity [01:42.64]Found a job [01:43.47]Found his Mother's grave site [01:44.87]Found a 40 ounce [01:46.04]Then he found God [01:47.34]Then he bounced [01:48.21]Then he found a new chick [01:49.50]Two kids  wide hips [01:50.75]Found something in her we didn't see [01:53.08]Found this spot in Pasadena and shack with her [01:55.38]An investment [01:57.06]Then found guilty [01:58.03]Somebody had yelled domestic [01:59.80]Violence on my Uncle [02:01.19]Was working with two strikes [02:02.48]Only out a year  now facing life [02:04.11]I can only imagine [02:07.80]That's f**ked up [02:10.13]I can only imagine  Uncle Bob [02:17.67]Life's about decisions man [02:20.01]It's in your hand and you got it [02:23.26]Just take control if you can [02:25.72]It's in your hand and you got it [02:28.12]Sitting on the couch [02:29.47]Thinking about the ratio [02:30.71]Of blacks in prison as compact in prison [02:33.25]When blacks pack with minorities [02:35.35]System grab more of these 18 year olds [02:38.05]18 year sentence with no parole [02:40.91]The state won't oversee [02:42.27]They make the term severe  a conspiracy [02:45.02]That's what I call it [02:46.23]It's full of **** [02:47.20]A toilet can help quick [02:48.46]The government help [02:49.41]No  just put us on death row [02:51.28]Just give us some more guns [02:52.47]Then give us some more coke [02:54.09]Then give us another chair [02:55.33]Then give us some more rope [02:56.96]Then hang it like right there  yeah [02:59.15]It's justice for all but 90 percent unfair [03:02.00]Care  No [03:03.29]Alcatraz was purchased by a white man [03:05.63]For 5 grand  with intentions to expand [03:08.38]More prisons [03:08.98]So these correctionals ain't for rehabilitation [03:11.01]They for grossing a bigger business [03:13.46]Imagine [03:16.41]We're being used [03:19.33]Imagine [03:23.07]The truth shall be told [03:25.74]Life's about decisions man [03:28.16]It's in your hand and you got it [03:31.43]Just take control if you can [03:33.84]It's in your hand and you got it