Well I was cast out of Sacto and driven out east In my darkest hour turned to crime I was sentenced to jail, where I was beaten and starved I was murdered time after time after time Treat a man like a dog and thats what hell become Hell grovel today but soon his time will come A man can be pushed, made to endure all pain But one day like a noose, hell reach his breaking strain In an act of defense or defiance or rage I savagely beat my cellmate So they shackled my legs and threw me in a gang To clear an old graveyard and work off my hate I felt like a beast, running hurt, blind and bleeding Knowing somewhere a cliff is ahead The bossman would watch from the shade of a tree And drive me til I was near dead The boss licked his chops and said, Son, learn your place Or Ill throw your bones down in the hole Like a pot boiling over and snuffing out its fire My rage burned as black as a coal Im no bossmans dog, my back wont stoop far My homes not in heaven, I dont run from war Say a man can be pushed but when theres nothing left at stake Sooner or later, hell break My eyes filled with blood so I picked up a bone And I cleaved his fat head clean in two He fell into the dust as I spat on his face Brother, the same goes for you
hell, rage, pushed, cleaved, snuffing