[Intro] (Heavy footsteps pacing) (Static fuzz, distant sirens wailing) Yeah. Look. Tick, tick. [Verse 1] Clock ticking down on the desk where I left it Messages flashing, they intercept message I’m running clean out of time and perception Cornered and trapped with no room for deflection They knock on the hardwood, they breaking the threshold Telling me stories of everything un-told Look at the handcuffs, look at the shadow Walking right into the jaws of the gallows Pack up the bags or I pack up my feelings Staring right up at the cracks in the ceiling No more excuses, no getting away This is the price that a fugitive pays [Chorus] Locked up tonight, yeah the door's slamming shut No place to run and no cards left to cut Shadows are closing, the sirens are wailing Look at the ship and the way it is sailing Locked up tonight, yeah they got me confined Leaving the freedom I had all behind [Verse 2] Pacing the floorboards, I’m searching for angles Caught in a web of jurisdictional tangles Mind is a labyrinth, thoughts are colliding Nowhere to run and nowhere left for hiding They read me the rights while the static is buzzing Engine is idling, officers fuzzing Look at the numbers, they add up to zero Nobody coming to play as the hero Fast-forward life to a cell with a metal bar Looking outside at a vanishing distant star Heavy the step as the iron gate closes Traded my future for thorns on the roses [Chorus] Locked up tonight, yeah the door's slamming shut No place to run and no cards left to cut Shadows are closing, the sirens are wailing Look at the ship and the way it is sailing Locked up tonight, yeah they got me confined Leaving the freedom I had all behind [Verse 3] Silence is deafening, breathing is shallow Echoes bounce back from the concrete and halo Counting the bricks in the wall till it's morning Ignored every sign and ignored every warning Paperwork stacked on a table of iron Feeding the beast, turning lambs into lion Writing my thoughts on the back of a docket Burn all the pictures I kept in my pocket This is the end of the chapter, the finale Walking alone down this desolate alley Out of the pressure and into the sentence No time for tears and no room for repentance [Outro] (Metal door clangs shut) (Heavy lock turning) (Fading heartbeat) Locked up...
