Done My Time

Lived through times, where I could never breathe Left to wander, left to perish with disease Hopes and dreams scattered anlong with broken glass With bleeding soles, I sought a different path All of my thoughts are for the taking All of my trusts were mistaken All of my fears, they are fading And I've done my time, I've done my time Within these secret walls I toiled every night Seeking a way to quell my need for your sight Drown inside myself, the venom runs numb Cannot tell you where I've been or where I'm from All of my thoughts are for the taking All of my trusts were mistaken All of my fears, they are fading And I've done my time, I've done my time Words are weapons brandished under false pretense One fall harmlessly, another heralds your end Seek not ways to slay, but ways to anesthetize I cannot bear this, but I know I've done my time All of my thoughts are for the taking All of my trusts were mistaken All of my fears, they are fading And I've done my time, I've done my time So what is left to those who pay the Devil his due What more can they give, what more that is true Stripped away of hope, swabbed in blistered pain The beaten dog outside, haunted yet still chained