Boarded-Up Windows

You left the penitentiary and swear to never go back But a system built on flaws will leave open cracks You were only a child when you began this descent As it swallows you in we'll begin to forget I don't know why you can here with all these boarded-up windows These walls they're unforgiving, stuck with your boarded-up windows Following hard from when you were seventeen You didn't mean to take, you just needed a release Just another mouth, just one more to feed The system takes you in when there's nowhere else to be I don't know why you came here with all these boarded-up windows These walls they're unforgiving, stuck with your boarded-up windows As these levels rise and you feel boarded in Never a better time to crack and rescind But out on the streets is hardly living, day to day And your fire inside only helps you rot away I don't now why you came here with all these boarded-up windows These walls they're stiff and tightening from the rejects left here Just a working slob with nothing to spare We're all set up when we're born into here Pestilence and waste, the city we all know Roaming hate to hate 'cause we don't have a home I don't know why you came here with all these boarded-up windows These walls they're unforgiving, stuck with your boarded-up windows I don't know why you came here with all these boarded-up windows These walls they're stiff and tightening from the rejects left here Don't know why you're sent here; another nameless scapegoat This world is cruel and narrow inside your boarded-up windows