Body Count (ice-t) - Dead Man Walking lyrics

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[Intro: Ice-T as a Court Judge]Will the defendant please rise!You have been found guilty, and will be confined in a maximum state penitentiaryFor return no ?? in five consecutive life sentenceThere will be NO possibility of prolongDue to special circumstances your dead ?? will be constricted[Ice-T]I don't remember my mama, dad sold crack all nightMy life was fucked from the jumpstreet, now this kite I writeNever had half a fucking chance, my whole trial I was brokeCircumstantial that's bullshit, my defense was a joke![Monologue #1: Ice-T]You go in a motherfucking courtroom, with a fucking public defender The public defender works with the fucking D.A.!Motherfuckers ain't got no chance, you ain't got no money you're fucked, you're fucked![Ice-T]Now this cell is my residence, my address is The Row24 hour lock down, when they'll kill me who knows?[Chorus:][Ernie] Guilty - we're the unfree![Ice-T] Dead man walking[Ernie] Guilty - we're the unfree![Ice-T] Dead man walking[Ice-T]I'm a genius from books now, never read on the streetNever lifted a fucking weight, now my body is concreteFiled a hundred appeals or more, no response from the stateGet no phone calls or visits, my mentality's hate![Monologue #2: Ice-T]When I was on the street I had motherfucking boysWhere's my bitch? ~ she won't even accept my fucking phone calls! Yo, they better not let me up out this motherfuckerYo, this shit's on, fuck that word![Ice-T]I get visits from doctors, analyzing the illFamilies pray for my death now, vengeance lays for the kill[Chorus:][Ernie] We're Guilty - we're the unfree![Ice-T] Dead man walking[Ernie] Guilty - we're the unfree![Ice-T] Dead man walking[Interlude #1: Court Session][Judge] Does the defendant have any final words, he would like to say to the court?[Ice-T] Yeah, I got something I'd like to say ~ Yo, you judge, you're a racist motherfuckerI feel like busting your motherfucking... don't let me go!I'm gonna kill everyone one of you jurors, If I ever get out of hereI'm coming one by one, and blow your motherfucking brains outYou motherfuckers! No, keep your motherfucking hands off! Fuck that![Ice-T]So I think about my past now, my future holds only painInvoluntarily drugged by the state for years, now I know I'm insaneWhen I'm moved shackled hands and feet, my skin's covered in inkI read the bible about twenty-five times, now fuck god's how I think![Monologue #3: Ice-T]You can save all that religious bullshit, stay the fuck out of my cellIf that priest comes in my cell, I'ma bust him in the..I'll break your fucking neck with my bare hands, fuck that![Ice-T]So live your life to the fullest, but remember don't tripOne mistake you're my neighbor, and there's no one here rich![Interlude #2: Skit from a cell block][-] Bring him in, yah, bring him in, yah, send him now[+] Come here, just come here, you fucking cunt..[-] Sit him, son of a bitch (*Sampler of Electric Shock*)[Chorus:][Ernie] Guilty - we're the unfree![Ice-T] We're dead men walking[Ernie] Guilty - we're the unfree![Ice-T] We're dead men walking