Versuri 02. Straight Time

Got out of prison back in '86 and I found a wife  
Walked the clean and narrow  
Just tryin' to stay out and stay alive  
Got a job at the rendering plant, it ain't gonna make me rich  
In the darkness before dinner comes  
Sometimes I can feel the itch  
I got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line  
I'm sick of doin' straight time  
 
My uncle's at the evenin' table, makes his living runnin' hot cars  
Slips me a hundred dollar bill says  
"Charlie you best remember who your friends are."  
Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line  
I ain't makin' straight time  
 
Eight years in it feels like you're gonna die  
But you get used to anything  
Sooner or later it just becomes your life  
 
Kitchen floor in the evening tossin' my little babies high  
Mary's smiling but she's watching me out of the corner of her eye  
Seems you can't get any more than half free  
I step out onto the front porch and suck the cold air deep inside of me  
Got a cold mind to go tripping 'cross that thin line  
I'm sick of doin' straight time  
 
In the basement huntin' gun and a hacksaw  
Sip a beer and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor  
 
Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands  
Lay my head down on the pillow  
And go driftin' off into foreign lands