Greydon Square - Prison Planet lyrics

You should never be surprised
When you get attacked
You’ll know all the freedoms they took from
You when you get em back
When in fact they were never
Yours to begin with
This is a prison planet you’re
Serving a life a sentence

Enter prisoner 092881
No particular kid of interest
Nobody’s great son
So he enters the system’s revolving
Door on day one comes out a menace the armed
Forces gave a gun
Sent him to war without warning him
The images he’d store from then
On would now torture him
Brought his hyper awareness back to the rear
A soldier who still feels active
Missing half of his gear
Blood money they trade for his education
So he can learn to describe a
State with one single equation
His idol Carl Sagan, his outlet hip hop
He wants to be a physicist
He wants to wreck shop
Sittin at the pawn shop
Watching the clock stuck
Technically a free man
But still feels locked up
As a result of social conditioning
He actually has something to say
But no one is listening

You should never be surprised
When you get attacked
You’ll know all the freedoms they took from
You when you get em back
When in fact they were never
Yours to begin with
This is a prison planet you’re
Serving a life a sentence

He’s institutionalized on two fronts
Deals with his PTSD with crude blunts
The civilian reality is too much
So much he hasn’t left his house in 2 months
His mood jumps from dealing with rude cunts
Attitude fronts and them asking to do brunch
Every morning wakes up from the same dream
His fate seems status quo, the same thing
With chains free to tight walk the fame beam
He sabotages all the success his name brings
It’s the baggage of the guilt
He walks around with
The psychological scarring you can’t
Heal with counseling
Feeling guilty bout the fact
He actually made it wants among the greatest
While he shuns his medication
Munches education
While he punches on the pavement
Cuz he hates it
Imprisoned by the past he’s escapin’

You should never be surprised
When you get attacked
You’ll know all the freedoms they took from
You when you get em back
When in fact they were never
Yours to begin with
This is a prison planet you’re
Serving a life a sentence

Another inmate who wallows in his misery
The prison is his thoughts
The cell is his history
Watching as the world passes him by
With every plan to escape foiled
He happens to try
Sabotaged, by himself he’s the main saboteur
He’s the cellie he’s the warden he’s
The guard at the door
He looks at all his cell mates like their kin
The guy he was fighting with
The shank that was him
In the same crap as him
Just trying to see the outs
Equally as blind trying to
Lead each other out
Expecting every single opportunity
To fall through
It's like being caged but you have
The key somewhere on you
And he’s tries to break the
Cycle but he can’t
There an unraised pent up rage he doesn’t get
And for every him, a million just like him
Born of war, group homes, jails
And gang violence

You should never be surprised
When you get attacked
You’ll know all the freedoms they took from
You when you get em back
When in fact they were never
Yours to begin with
This is a prison planet you’re
Serving a life a sentence