The Reckoning
He sent a letter to the county line sayin’ gimme a minute with my family and I, ’cause I never thought it’d turn out this way
Yea, I was just a boy back then with a shoe string smile and toy gun in hand but I clung to every word he said
He spoke of things like compromise when to wage a war and how to stand and fight
What it takes to live life right
Still I can see the look in his eyes when the judge yelled down twenty five to life sayin’
Boys don’t waste your time
Freedom is yours and mine
He said
it’s been ten years since they shot me down
But I’m still right here I will never back down
They gotta do one better if they think I’m gonna change
Now ya see these scars and these prison bars can never hold me back from the shooting stars ’cause
I am no man’s slave
Then he cried Freedom
This is my Reckoning
We’d go to see him from time to time, I wrote letters every summer to keep mama from cryin’
But we knew the end was near
Cause you can chain one man to four cold walls but you can’t chain down his spirit nor soul screamin’
Boys I’ve done my time,
Now we ride tonight
Because it’s been ten years since they shot me down
But I’m still right here I will never back down
They gotta do one better if they think I’m gonna change
Now ya see these scars and these prison bars can never hold me back from the shooting stars cause’
I am no man’s slave
Then he cried for freedom, he was tried for freedom, you know he died for freedom.
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