hold up the firing line
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hold steady on the trigger's time
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walk away counting backwards from nine
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holdin' his breath so to start his own dying
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[CHORUS:]
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time served
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to the ones that left you here
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no people here, only names
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soon to be put to numbers so it's one and the same
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it's anyone's game as long as the fire flickers
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the throat stickers, they place their bet
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the trouble is that no one's added it up quite yet
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cause when they do, when they do it'll be a
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riot and the wire is down
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hold up for the fury to sound
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hold up you head from the ground
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or they'll keep you on it
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your time's served
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to the one's that left you here
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from tower to wall to guard to guard to wall
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ever ready for th fire to fall
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the confiners haven't seen the sun since
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the lifers let got of their irrelevent innocence
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but long before a single round was shot
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word was spread from block to block to cell block
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they're going to take him
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and make an example of him for the escapees to fear
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the incoming of the
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incoming of the gun
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oncoming of the year
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you either die on the inside or trying to get out
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the choice is yours, the choice is here
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Time Served
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