State Of Mind

[Verse 1: Tom Scott] Just sittin' in my lonely cell, with my lonely self And nothin more than my thoughts - no one else I got my cell mate misery he knows me well He keep me company and help me to, open my mail And a, he'll never tell anybody my secrets That I keep, deep, underneath sheets of reefer Cause, people are lethal, like the injection You can never quite tell, despite the impressions so I never left screws, up in my mind You wanna search my cell I got, nothin to hide You wanna frame me, kill me, milk me of my purity But they can't penetrate my maximum security We're livin' in a world, wild full of wickedness Where people treated like they're prisoners with no visitors Every day, but I'm gonna figure out an escape plan Gotta get up out of this cage man, they say that [Hook] Prison is a state of mind I'm doin time Misery is a mate of mine I heard that Prison is a state of mind I'm doin time Misery is a mate of mine They Say that Prison is a state of mind I'm doin time Misery is a mate of mine It Feels like Prison is a state of mind I'm doing time... [Verse 2: Tom Scott] Sometimes i feel as if im doin life But, am I really alive Or just survivin inside solitary confinement In the mind, I'm too scared of thinking out side I've had these bars so long, I can't tell who's behind them Shit, guess I sold myself to the cell Turned myself in and told myself that I failed It's like, my biggest monster is, my own consciousness A con conned by his own self confidence Chained up in the cuffs of his own thoughts Opportunity rung, I hung myself by the phone cord Wanting for more than we hope for Livin in paradise, thinkin' 'bout jumpin' the gold wall Sit and think in my wrinkled jumpsuit About my life on the outside as a young dude I take a blunt spoon out of the lunch room And try to dig a hole to the old I once knew [Hook] Prison is a state of mind I'm doin time Misery is a mate of mine I heard that Prison is a state of mind I'm doin time Misery is a mate of mine They Say that Prison is a state of mind I'm doin time Misery is a mate of mine It Feels like Prison is a state of mind I'm doing time... [Nas sample]