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Writer's pictureMarcus Nikos

12 Years a Slave Then back again




Here is a land that never gave a damn

About a man like me and myself because they never did

I wasn't with it but just that very minute it occurred to me

The evil power had authority

Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell, how long has it been?

They got me sitting in the Federal cell

I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before

I contemplated a plan on the cell floor

I'm not a fugitive on the run

But a man like me begun to be another one

What did the DA call me a few hundred times a mastermond a public enemy serving time

They drew the line y'all, to criticize me some crime

Nevertheless, they could not understand that I'm a Bold man

And I could never be a slave

On the strength, the situation's unreal

I got a raw deal, so I'm looking for the steel

They got me rotting in the time that I'm serving

Telling you what happened the same time they're throwing

Four of us packed in a cell like slaves, oh well

The same motherfucker got us living in his hell

You have to realize, what its a form of slavery

Organized under a swarm of devils

Straight up - word 'em up on the level

The reasons are several, most of them federal

Here is my plan anyway and I say

I got gusto, but only some I can trust, yo

Some do a bid of 12 years a slave

But I never did, and plus I never been

I'm on a tier where no tears should ever fall

Cell block and locked, I never clock it y'all

Cause time and time again

Time, they got me serving to those and to them, I'm not a citizen

a slave now bound chained and non existining to all i love


On the strength, I'ma tell you the deal

I got nothing to lose

Cause I'm going for the steel



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