Battering down sentence, Fighting Against Convictions (2X)
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I find myself growing in an environment
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Where finding food is just as hard as paying the rent
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In trodding these roads of trials and tribulations
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I've seen where some have died in desperation
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To keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
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In a family of ten and raised in the ghetto
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Hustling is the only education I know
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Can't grow no crops in this concrete jungle
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A situation like this is getting too hard to handle
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To keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
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With a pregnant woman, yes
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and five kids to care for
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Can't cool my heels, I've got to do the town
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As skillful as I am, the jailer-man is bound to find me
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I pray the day will come when I shall be free from
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Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
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To be trapped and caught and taken before judge and angry jury
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Pleading before men, who seem to have no mercy
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Can't afford to find myself down in the dungeons
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I've got to stay free so that my kids won't be
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Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)
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Now a fugitive at large
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Could this be my destiny
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With no one to care for the wellfare of my family
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But in solitude I've found new faith and hope in this I'll be secure
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For mind and soul would soon be weary
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Just couldn't take no more
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Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions
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Fighting Against Conviction
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| Bunny Wailer |
