Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.

I find myself growing in an environment,
Where finding food is just as hard as, paying the rent.
In trodding these roads of trials and tribulations,
I've seen where some have died in desperation;
To keep battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.

In a family of ten, and raised in the ghetto,
Hustling is the only education I know.
Can't grow no crops in this concrete jungle,
A situation like this, is getting too tough to handle;

To keep battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.

With a pregnant woman yes, and five kids to care for,
Can't cool my heels I've got to do the town.
Skilful as I am the jailer man is bound to find me,
I pray the day will come when I shall be free from;
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.

To be trapped and caught and taken before judge and angry jury,
Pleading before men who seem to have no mercy.
Can't afford to find myself down in the dungeons,
I've got to stay free, so that my kids won't be;
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.

Now a fugitive at large, could this be my destiny?
With no one to care for, the welfare of my family.
In solitude I've found,
New faith and hope in this I'll be secure,
For mind and soul would soon be weary,
Just couldn't take no more.
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.
Battering down sentence: fighting against conviction.