April 19, 2021: I've Done My Time

I’ve Done My Time

Waiting at the station; feeling so alone!
I see old friends in the faces of folks I’ve never known,
I think I’d know just where to go if I wanted to get stoned,
But that ain’t what I’m looking for – from the jail house, going home!
 
Riding in the subway, seems like everything’s in tact,
When all at once I’m mystified by a girl in checkered slacks.
I think she threw a smile at me, but how would someone ask?
So I look out the back window to the darkness of the tracks.
 
Chorus:
I’m gonna make it.  
I know I can take it
If I have to fake it,
‘Cause I’ve got my pride.
Wake up in the morning and meet the day;
Find me a job so I can earn my pay.
Somebody make this pain go away
That I’m always feeling inside.
 
My loneliness confuses me about what I stand to gain.
Ten years in a prison cell.  I have no cause to feel ashamed.
But no one knows what I’m going through.  Nobody feels my pain.
Some day I'm going to write a book on how the world has gone insane!
 
Chorus
 
Walking from the subway - Someone’s  rocking to the blues.
I’m watching sanguine faces digest the daily news.
I ask someone what he’s looking for, but I’m silently excused.
Does he think that I’m a criminal?  I thought I’d paid my dues!
 
Chorus