Doing the Time Songtext
von Zandi Holup

I ain′t locked in a cell, but I might as well be
Heartbreak's a prison eight days a week
I ain′t been outside, hadn't had much to eat
I'm still wearing your sweatshirt like it′s a jumpsuit on me

I′m in chains either way, mistakes or misfortune
The memory's the guard, the anxiety′s the warden
Keeping me in here trapped like a rat
The thoughts in my mind feel like damn Alcatraz

Why am I in here? I'm the innocent one
Paying for all of the shit that you′ve done
You're out on the run knowing you did the crime
Free as a bird while I′m doing the time


If lying and cheating were deemed first degree
Instead of out there with her, you'd be in here with me
But you plead the fifth on a fifth of Jim Beam
I reckon some girls you love and some girls you leave

Why am I in here? I'm the innocent one
Paying for all of the shit that you′ve done
You′re out on the run knowing you did the crime
Free as a bird while I'm doing the time

You ain′t called, you ain't checked in, ain′t tried to stop by
I guess I'm not wanted dead or alive

Why am I in here? I′m the innocent one
Paying for all of the shit that you've done
You're out on the run knowing you did the crime
Free as a bird while I′m doing the time

I′m doing the time