A prison (from Old French prisoun) is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime. Other terms used are penitentiary, correctional facility, remand centre, detention centre, and jail or gaol. In some legal systems some of these terms have distinct meanings. In the United States the difference between jails or detention facilities and prisons is primarily a function of the length of incarceration. Jails and detention facilities, under city or county jurisdiction, typically hold offenders awaiting trial or serving short sentences. Correctional facilities and prisons are more often run by the state or federal governments and house offenders serving long-term sentences. Similarly Ontario, Canada, jails and detention centres are used to hold remanded prisoners awaiting trial, sentencing or other court proceedings. Jails are typically small facilities originally designed to serve the local community and have been gradually replaced with large regional detention centres. Jails and detention centres are run by the provincial government. Once an offender is sentenced, he or she would be transferred to either a provincial correctional centre (if the sentence is less than two years) or a federal penitentiary (if the sentence is two years or more).
Jonathan Smith (born January 27, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, music producer, entrepreneur, and international DJ who was a member of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. Lil Jon formed the group in 1997, and the group released several albums between then and 2004. He then went solo and released a new album in 2010 called Crunk Rock.
Lil' Jon was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Frederick Douglass High School.
After working as a DJ for Atlanta night clubs, he started working for So So Def Recordings between 1993 and 2000. The group signed to the Atlanta-based Mirror Image Records and were distributed by Ichiban Records. In 1997, Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz debuted with Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album. It included singles "Who U Wit?" and "Shawty Freak a Lil' Sumthin'", the latter of which came out in 1998. Both singles charted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No. 70 and No. 62 respectively. In 2000 Jon took part in starting up his own label BME Recordings and signed a distribution agreement with Norcross, Georgia based Southern Music Distribution. There he released his break through album titled We Still Crunk. Among the tracks on that project was the hit single "I Like Dem Girlz", which reached No. 55 on the R&B chart and No. 3 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart.
Chained to the table, stuck in a rut
Drinking tea with sugar in a plastic cup
I know every brick in the wall outside
Never been so bored in all of my life
I'm sitting in a prison
D-d-down in a dungeon
That's what I am
I listen to the rattle of the railway track
Wanna leave this place and never come back
I'm sat here looking at the fire escape
I just can't wait till visiting day (on a Friday night)
Just sitting in a prison
D-d-down in a dungeon
Sitting in prison
D-d-down in a dungeon
I know this prison like the back of my hand
How can I make you understand
There's bars on the window, neon light
Electric fencing, dogs outside
I'm sat here watching you talk to me
Through a plate glass window you can't see
I wanna come out and make love to you
Oh but I've got another ten years to do
Sitting in a prison
D-d-down in a dungeon - that's what I am
Sitting in prison
Standing in line
waiting for the shit
that they feed us
everyday
Afraid to think
for yourself
Afraid...
to be alive
To die is to be free
From a World of Pain
A life of misery
This is the end the of my life
The swipe of a scythe
I scream my last breath
To begin an eternity in death
As my blood ceases to flow
No signs of life to show
Left to rot only i know
For me show no sorrow
And on to the realm of never ending night
For me my best gift
A funeral plight
Help me find a reason
In my darkest time
To open up my heart
And survive
Help me gain my vision
As I stand here blind
Looking out for a place to be
helpless and free
where no one will recognize me
A prison inside myself
I look at you
I think I need your help
(i look at you? to get through?)
Can you find the reason
To put it down
But you love the poison
You found
And all that you've been using
To get you through
Soon you'll see
That it was using you
Open your eyes, look to the world
Torture is real, that is no game
People were traced, send into a jail
The reason is just one mistake
Prisoned for many years
into a real hell
The future is killed
They get no help
No joy for their loney soul
No chance for remorse
The future's destroyed
Where's the freedom
PRISON - no way for the innocents
PRISON - no way for the unemployed
PRISON - no way for the homeless man
[Verse 1:]
I can still remember you telling me that I was the only one and that nobody had ever touched you...
Since the last time I caught you and we were critical. So, I moved on and you made me trust you again.
No, I take that back cause I never really trusted you. I just did what I had to do cause I loved you.
And remember whispers in my ear, telling me to have no fear... cause nobody else lives here.
But it was all a lie... all the time.
June...
[Chorus:]
Every since you told me I'mma tell you how it's been...
Don't talk to nobody not even my friends...
I can't sleep, and I don't even clean
I ain't had a good meal...
This how you make me feel when you're not here.
It's like you locked me up and threw away the key,
And everywhere I turn, it's like four walls are surrounding me...
And their moving in slowly.
I'm so lonely...
Feels like I'm in some kind of prison, and I wanna be free
So come back to me.
[Verse 2:]
Now I know this might sound hard to believe...
Cause I'm famous all up on MTV...
But you don't even know the half...
No I don't barely laugh...
All the girls surround me but I don't even know the last time I got some ass.
And it ain't cause I can't get it...
It's just that I don't want it.
Cause when I think about sex all I can think about is you moaning and some man fucking my name...
Tatted between your legs...
Imaged burned in my head...
And it's killing me baby...
It's driving me crazy
[Chorus:]
Every since you told me I'mma tell you how it's been...
Don't talk to nobody not even my friends...
I can't sleep, and I don't even clean
I ain't had a good meal...
This how you make me feel when you're not here.
It's like you locked me up and threw away the key,
And everywhere I turn, it's like four walls are surrounding me...
And their moving in slowly.
I'm so lonely...
Feels like I'm in some kind of prison, and I wanna be free
So come back to me.
[Bridge: x2]
You got me drinking...
You got me smoking...
You got me choking...
Do you see me crying...
Baby do you see me dying.
[Chorus:]
Every since you told me I'mma tell you how it's been...
Don't talk to nobody not even my friends...
I can't sleep, and I don't even clean
I ain't had a good meal...
This how you make me feel when you're not here.
It's like you locked me up and threw away the key,
And everywhere I turn, it's like four walls are surrounding me...
And their moving in slowly.
I'm so lonely...
Feels like I'm in some kind of prison, and I wanna be free
So come back to me.
Drinking, drinkin, drinkin...
Smoking, smoking, smoking...
Choking, choking, chockin...
Do you see me crying, baby do you hear me dying.
I'm locked up... u won't let me out.
You got me locked up... u won't let me out.
[Chorus:]
Every since you told me I'mma tell you how it's been...
Don't talk to nobody not even my friends...
I can't sleep, and I don't even clean
I ain't had a good meal...
This how you make me feel when you're not here.
It's like you locked me up and threw away the key,
And everywhere I turn, it's like four walls are surrounding me...
And their moving in slowly.
I'm so lonely...
Feels like I'm in some kind of prison, and I wanna be free
Prison, you're locked and barred within your prison
Prison, forever guarded in your prison,
Prison, where others make all your decisions
And when his wings are cut a bird forgets how to fly.
Prison, you sit alone inside your prison,
Prison, you've got a home inside your prison,
Prison, so many envy your position,
But without freedom how can all your dreams come alive?
Prison, there’s no escaping from that prison,
Prison, time melts away inside that prison,
Prison, can't even play without permission
And there’s a chain attached to every song that you
sing.
Prison, you live a lie inside your prison,
Prison, your gonna die inside your prison,
Prison, you call yourself a Rock Musician,
But you're a prisoner for those who pull your strings.
Prison, I can release you from your prison,
Prison, I've got the keys that lock your prison,
Prison, where fame and riches blur your vision
And every window on the worl is built too high.
Prison, you're locked and barred within your prison,
Prison, forever guarded in your prison,
Prison, where others make all your decisions
And when his wings are cut a bird forger how to fly.
Prison, you sit alone inside your prison,
Prison, you've got a home inside your prison,
Prison, so many envy your position,
Many more monsters,You believe caca,
SHUT UP.
I said hello, my name is happiness,
Not coming in a plastic bag near you.
Well, its prison,
Badness, hallucinations, and madness,
Sleep deprivation and sadness and all those things
they're telling you,
Well, it did it to me, it did it to you, I'd do it to
myself, and I'll do it
To you too,
Well it's all true.
So the monsters keep coming around and you don't even...
So just try to be quiet for a second,
Cause I said hello, My name is, You can't break a circle
with a line.
A line, a line,
So come on and get it cause it's
Prison, badness, hallucinations, and madness,
Sleep deprivation and sadness and all those things
they're telling you,
Well, it did it to me, it did it to you, I'd do it to
myself, and I'll do it
To you too,
mommy and daddy had a lock and key. so she went over the wall and she was finally free. she wants to know "why did the tv tell those lies? it lied to me?". i said "i know, i know, i know. youve earned your right to breathe. dont give it up. thats why you have to leave. you know your number is up." emptied her pockets on an ugly road. why did nothing grow when the seeds were sown? and why did the water turn the soil into mud? big plans, fat chance, small winds. they took it all away and wont give it back. "now you have to stay." i-told-you-sos-attack. was it fate or dumb mistakes that made things like they are? and did she have a choice. ragged shoes on wet cement, she talking to the king. only the peasant hears her voice. its just noise. and when she hides her eyes shes sure that no one sees her standing by the garbage cans finally alone. and when she shuts her mouth shes sure that no one hears her screaming at all of those who say she cant go back to prison. cant see his face, only yellow teeth. chewing on his tongue splitting easy money. oh what an ugly man, he thinks hes beautiful. whats next, who knows, who cares? is it an even trade, her time, his cash? descisions being made while treasures turn to trash. and what is the value of a fine young mind when you just cant see what you left behind? and why did her parents lie. they lied and lied and lied and lied! they said "youll see whats right, youll see." but you can only see whats wrong from below whats right. will she be there for long? not without a fight. and when she hides her eyes shes in prison.
I built a prison, once long ago
No windows, no lights, no hope inside
I placed myself within this cell I had
With nowhere else to get away from here
Now I've rot locked inside
Did I forget the key?
Maybe I never wanted one anyway
My prison is my home, it keeps the joy outside
Sadness safely tucked away, my soul rots inside
[x2]
Gonna break through the edge
Gonna make some noise
Gonna burn this fucking place all down and make some
noise
And make some noise
A dream once lived, translucent and free
My dream is now in a shadow box, an ode to misery
How did this come about?
I feel upon my own demise, opaque and a lifeless hole
I drink from blood which spills from the open wound
Absorbed and released again, I long to see the end
My prison is my home, it keeps the joy outside
Sadness safely tucked away, my soul rots inside
[x2]
Death - I know not
Life - I thought I did
Ignorance - it seems it has been the only guide,
1er couplet:
Trois ans passées, crois-moi c'est assez, j'y pense, j'ai mal, je me sens même contrôlé...
Les mains liés, les yeux pleins d'eau, je me demande, comme faire, pour m'en sortir sans trop...
Que même les vagues là s'acharnent sur moi,
C'est là qu'elles frappent, tout comme lui qui m'handicape chaque fois,
J'ai comme le coeur qui se resserre je sens la pression sur moi, j'ai l'impression, que je me perd, dans sa raison, moi je suis quoi?
Les jours avancent, moi je recule, ça pas de sens, c'est pire, c'est comme une cage qui se referme, sur moi pour que je reste prise...
Mais là je veux respirer, j'ai comme le souffle coupé,
C'est lui qui gère mes humeurs, à force de me faire dicter...
Chacun de mes gestes sont les siens, c'est lui qui trace mon chemin, pourtant je conduis, j'ai le permis, mais le volant, il le tient j'ai... J'ai comme trop pu de raisons de vouloir foncer,
Je voudrais briser là les chaînes de l'amour pour m'exiler, j'me sens...
REFRAIN:
Stay here, your mine (leave me alone)...
2ème couplet:
La première fois, je m'étais dis que t'étais juste un peu fâché. Puis là maintenant je me dis que t'étais un peu dérangé,
C'est pas dans la nuit que j'ai peur, le jour c'est comme le soir, ça devient noir dans tes yeux, dans les miens il n'y a plus d'espoir...
J'veux pas accepter les fois, ou même à tord, je t'ai défendu, j'oubliais même les gestes posés sur moi, j'étais vendu, le vend, vend, dure, souffle contre moi, j'ai beau courir, me sauver, là tu me rattrape chaque fois...
Je voudrais donner du gaz, vite, me retrouver seule, mais où, où trouver, l'escale,
L'endroit, le lieu, la terre seule... Celle promise, que oui, sans toi, j'avancerais,
Au lieu que tu me dise, à chaque jour, que sans toi, il n'y a rien de vrai...
Il y a les barreaux, qui font que, je me sens prisonnière, même la défense au barreau, m'ignore, je suis prise, on me niaises-tu?