Black And White

Oh, let me tell my story friend

That you might learn to stay away from sin

I took a life not mine to take

Imprisoned for this haunting dread mistake

My heart was harder than my soul

They sentenced me to life without parole

Where no one cares, we’re all the same

And I must wear this number for my name

Chorus :

Now life to me is black and white

I’ll wear these stripes until the day I die

But this ball and chain around my leg

Won’t drag me down, won’t drag me down

When I am dead

My mother prayed so hard for me

She did her time down on bended knees

But I was young and I had no fear

Her pleading voice still echoes in my ear

Don’t let the beauty blind your eyes

This world is filled with discolored lies

For greener fields don’t sell your soul

You’ll think you’re rich with a pocket of fool’s gold

Chorus

I’d rather be in this dark cell

Than to be free and die and go to hell

God bless the day of my new birth

I don’t have to pay the price that I deserve

Chorus

Ending:

And when I’m dead and take my flight

I’ll leave behind this world of black and white