Fighting Against Conviction

Battering down sentence,
 Fighting against convictions
 Battering down sentence,
 Fighting against convictions
 
 I find myself growing
 In an environment
 Where finding food
 Is just as hard as
 Paying the rent
 In trodding these roads of trial
 And tribulations
 I've seen where
 Some have died in desperation
 To keep
 Battering down sentence,
 
 Fighting against convictions
 Battering down sentence,
 Fighting against convictions
 
 In a family of ten
 And raised
 In the ghetto
 Hustling's
 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 convictions
 Battering down sentence,
 All day long,
 Fighting against convictions
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 With a pregnant woman, yes,
 And five kids to care for
 Can't cool my heels,
 I've got to do the town
 Skillful 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 convictions
 Battering down sentence,
 All live long day,
 Fighting against convictions
 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 convictions
 Battering down sentence,
 All live long day now,
 Fighting against convictions
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 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,
 All live long day,
 Fighting against convictions
 Children hear me when I say
 Battering down sentence,
 All day long,
 Fighting against convictions
 Hear me when I sing my song
 Battering down sentence,
 
 Fighting against convictions.