Guilty Until Proven Innocent Songtext
von Thi'sl

Please rise. The court of St. Louis County, criminal division
Is now in session. The honorable judge, Hannah Turner presiding
You may be seated. Mister Tyler, you′re being charged with first
Degree armed criminal action, first degree unlawful use of a weapon
First degree breaking and entering, and first degree murder
But I'm innocent though, what you mean?
Order in the court, order in the court
I can′t believe this, man
I ain't even do this, I'm innocent
I can′t believe I′m right here right now
All I know is a couple weeks ago, my
Life spiraled all the way out of control
But the odds, they been stacked up against me since day one


Until the late '80s, my family lived on the remains of an old
Slave plantation called Belle Chase in Memphis City, Mississippi
It was just like one you see on the movies
Long windy dirt road, rows of tin and wood houses
White wooden church at the end of the road
A big white house at the beginning
And cotton fields as far as your eyes could see
When slavery ended in the South, a lot of
Slaves didn′t know how to pick up and move on
So they stayed on the plantations as sharecroppers
My family's a descendant to that
Memphis City was an unincorporated area in Lee Floyd County
The home of T.Y. Fleming high school
The great Olympic basketball player, Lucy Harris
And if you didn′t know by now, me, Travis Tyler, AKA Thizzle
My stay on Belle Chase was short lived though
When I was two years old, my grandparents packed
The U-Haul truck, piled their kids in the car
And our next stop, my new home, St. Louis, Missouri