Don't Do the Crime if you Can't Do the Time

Song Description

A dark, dramatic tale relating to criminal incarceration and the subsequent feelings of fear, regret,loneliness, despair and then hope/freedom

Song Length 4:06 Genre Country - Alternative, Rock - General
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Gloomy, Miserable Subject Crime, Theft, Fear
Language English Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

I got sixteen years in a federal jail. The female judge said I'd be going to hell.
Now I'm sitting in cell block number one, in an eight by twelve with nowhere to run.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time
(Chorus)

As I lay my body on the cold steel bed. I get the fear of death racing through my head.
Well I'm laying here thinking about what I done. I really didn't want to hurt no one. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time
(Chorus)

Well I'm up in the morning at six AM eat my breakfast on the run. Then it's off to the shop for the work to be done.
Lunch and dinner at twelve and five and then I'm sitting with some rehab man. It's the same thing all over and over again. I can't take it no more.
(Chorus)

Now my prison days are almost done. I see the hate in the eyes of the new ones who come.
I'm gonna live my life and be a better man. I hope these kids will someday understand.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
(Chorus)

I'm free

Lyrics Rick Pisano Music Rick Pisano
Producer Rick Pisano Publisher Orleans Street Music
Label Brothers II Productions, LLC

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