While we used long fingernails to carve epitaphs into the floor
You were scratching freedom from concrete living in a world of gamblers
And murder victims I walk these corridors knowing of the net beneath
Your defiance has become legend within these walls and we sit
In our cells and hope you live enough life for the rest of us who did not make it out.







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    I think your wrong, i believe this songs lyrics to be as clear as day, its a song about prison, and knowing the proper difference between similies and mataphors. Sully graduated college when he was nine so he doesnt need a grammar lesson, this song wouldnt even qualify to be played at Sully's high schools battle of the bands. YOUVE BEEN SMACKED!!!!!

    GodsMaCk4LiFeon April 05, 2008   Link

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