MUSIC FOR SALE

What's this I do? (MMM)
Why am I here? (MMM)
This dead end job, this hopeless place I live in
There must be more (MMM)
Somewhere out there (MMM)
Should I break out and find it or just give in?

I am a convict of culture
I was born into tradition
And these are my chains
This is my prison

Ain't diff-er-ence I fear, I want it, habit keeps me here, my hopes upon it, familiarity, knowin' what I see, just a hangin' tree and I know I just keep hangin' myself on it
Only listen to the voices, man demandin' or the boy's diss, say I've only got two choices, wages criminal, wages minimal, but subliminal I'm hearin' different noises

If life's a journey (OOO)
Where am I now? (OOO)
This road I'm travelling on is always the same
My life's a circle (OOO)
One roundabout (OOO)
See what I see, do what I do and do it again

I am a convict of culture
I was born into tradition
And these are my chains
This is my prison

There's a comfort in the cage, in this old book I'm a page, I'm an actor on a stage, and there's a script, my page is ripped, the balance tipped and now there's nothin' left of me but rage
Another soul inside, treat it like a stranger, it must be denied, it's danger, status quo's accepted, urge to go rejected
And I will never, ever know a change here


It's time for freedom (MMM)
Get off the ride (MMM)
Get out and find another better way to be
The right direction (MMM)
Is right here inside (MMM)
I am the prison, the stranger is me

I am a convict of culture
I was born into tradition
And these are my chains
This is my prison

Now I won't listen, demandin', dissin', I see the system, see through the fog, I ain't a cog, I ain't a dog, see what I'm missin'
Gonna walk another track, gotta take another tack, maybe loss and maybe lack, let the stranger do the talkin', let the freedom do the walkin', when I get outta this I ain't never goin' back

I'm a free man escapin'
Not a prisoner of tradition
I break my chains
No prison