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Doing Time is not easy but it's something that I gotta do/ Survival of the fittest so this how I gotta move/ I'm not the strongest so I got a lot to lose/ Pound for pound round for round I got a lot to prove/ Every night I go to sleep paranoid and schizophrenic/ In my prison cell feeling like they're trying to get me/ So I sleep with one eye open and a shiv in my mattress/ Can't let them catch me off guard tweaking like an addict/ I can't enjoy my yard with other people playing ball/ I gotta watch my back so my back against the wall/ My hand on my shiv alert 24/7/ Can't even trust my own kind or anyone for that matter/ Everybody gangbanging trying to earn a few strips/ I refuse to be a victim so I'm playing with my knife/ Survive by any means is the only thing on my mind/ Fighting through these dark days waiting on the Sunshine/ Doing what I gotta do just to get by/ But I won't be a punk so it's respect me or die/ I got years to go but you know how that go/ If somebody cross the line they have to add more/ I know the game and how it go, when they think you a punk/ Try to bait you in with funny talk to make you a punk/ Or call you out to fight just to see if you'll do it/ If they do, you better fight for your life or get ruined/ I don't care if you're 4' 2" and they're six eight/ You better grab a weapon be ready to bang/ Let the whole unit know you stand as a man/ You gotta build your reputation of not caring/ So the next dude thinking he tough will give up/ Your best bet, is to mind your own business/ Because if you do anything they'll find a witness/ The game is not the same cuz they'll add fifty years/ They're playing dirty games and they'll lie to get it/ Don't try to kick it, just do your time/ But if it's going down, make them respect your mind/
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