Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
Yeah, it ain't easy, hear me?
When I see the penitentiary
When I see the penitentiary
And dem a ask me how me feel inside
Now me inna the courthouse,
Want to come up after me,
Sometime I remember, pon the gulley,
Me and my dawgs, dem used to hang out
but not the gulley, not the pastime
Man used to buy a slice of bread
Me get the gift fi sing some
Me media all up in me piece
and I cast if dem grow me
The part me track, it rough
Get a youth, it ain't easy,
When I see the penitentiary,
When I see the penitentiary,
When I see the penitentiary,
When I see the penitentiary
More like dem real but a fake as dem
Call it God's truth which is
Hate by many, love by most
Life is a cycle, life is a course
Longest live a yes a dem tell the most
When I see the penitentiary
When I see the penitentiary
When I see the penitentiary
When I see the penitentiary
When I see the penitentiary
When I see the peniten tiary
When I see the penitentiary,
When I see the penitentiary