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Dec 2009
I'm tired of sleeping and crippled from rest
My head is inactive and my body possessed
I need to escape this prison, and breath at a pace
To feel exhilaration to have one more smile on my face

Four walls, one window and an open door
An opportunity to escape to bend my own law
Get out there, be free, meet friends and have fun
but I cannot risk it, what if I am the one.

The one that they catch making a dash to be free
caught at the gate trying to find a new me
Before I know it i'd be here forever
I need one more day of getting it together.

To be a good loser is not always ok
Depends what you've lost, what you've had to pay
To live alone when you've been one of ten
but they've left you, it's just you alone with your pen.
Written by
James Andrew Wood
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   --- and Etta James
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