Life as I see it surely can't be,
the way we live life back here, unfree.
For this is truly not a life
as anyone can see,
that life back here just isn't meant to be

I sit on death row day after day,
watching my life waste away.
Yet I think back on a life I once had,
where times now don't seem so bad.
Thinking of all the love I had
but the drugs surely clouded my view
and ruined my life and others too.

Loyalty is quite unique
and that is what I truly seek.
Ones that stand above the weak
but some are pure and some are true.
But I wouldn't say it's very few.

Death Row is a place
where a man is disgraced,
where flyers don't land
and birds don't sing.

Where one seeks love
but cannot find
for people truly feel
we are a waste of time.

So you sit in your cage
day after day and watch.

Your life wastes away,
you have no hope
you have no dreams
you have no meaning - it surely seems

God gave me this day
to use any way.
I can waste it away
or grow in it today.
But I cannot replace it
so I best not waste it.
 

I can show others the light
and fill their hearts with delight.
But tomorrow's not promised
and this I want you to see,
for if you die tonight
just where will you be?