I'm Bout It movie - Lock Down lyrics

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Song by Mac<br /><br>

1997, same-old shit, (whats happening), niggas locked down<br>

a cage bird can only sing for so long nigga, you know what I'm sayin'<br>

wanna be free, thats real<br>

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[Verse 1]<br>

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I was on my way upstate, for felonies, Mac'll never see<br>

The sunshine, these good old times, it's haunting me<br>

My family is wanting me to break free<br>

Plus it's looking as if I'm about to die, in the arms of the justice<br>

Plotting my escape, before I made it to the gates<br>

Thinking I'ma break, no matter what the shit takes<br>

The maximum incarceration is what they got me facing<br>

I'm having thoughts of pacing and masturbation<br>

Laying up in a cell, never seeing females<br>

Reminiscing about the skins I gave hell, oh well<br>

Courts ain't even trying to hear my pleases<br>

Yelling you gonna get parole when hell freezes<br>

A double murder is what I got to explain to God<br>

With no holds barred, it's hard, my mind is forever scarred<br>

Mercy on a soldier, I'm seeing things Nostradamus couldn't see<br>

When all I really wanna be is free nigga<br>

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[Chorus]<br>

(I want to be free, oh yeah <br>

I want to be free, oh yeah <br>

I want to be free, oh yeah <br>

I want to be free, oh yeah <br>

I want to be free, oh yeah)<br>

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[Verse 2]<br>

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My baby girl is pregnant with a future Mac<br>

Waiting for me to come back, but old judge ain't tryin to hear that<br>

He wanna see me die of old age, in a two man cage<br>

A straight rage, I'd rather be on stage<br>

Instead I'm in the pit, over some shit, I didn't commit<br>

It was the niggas I was with, but I'm silent<br>

Its funny how Lucifer can seduce ya<br>

These so called niggas be on the Seas of Madusa<br>

Its funny how time walk, when they be in the slammer<br>

Facing the type of sentences you can't correct with grammar<br>

And I'm dealing with these lifers, some of these niggas find me attractive<br>

And be trying to bend me over backwards, but I'm active<br>

Years add on, every enemy I shank, penitentiary ain't what you think<br>

I wanna be free, wishing I could strangle up all the jurors and prosecutors<br>

But I'm trapped with lots of losers<br>

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[Chorus] <br>

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[Verse 3]<br>

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Its been 9 months of pain, in this ball and chain<br>

Still thinkin about them days, I was living vain, ain't it strange<br>

Cause I'd give anything to move on<br>

And play a game of peek-a-boo with my newborn<br>

I'm seeing niggas take they own lives under pressure<br>

You come in here with attitudes, niggas gonna test ya<br>

I'm lookin at the gates, ready to break, I don't fake<br>

Tell the judge I'll be rhyming at his wake<br>

I'm free nigga<br>

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