[Verse 1] THE SCHOOL is a cage With clocks on the wall Same bell, same hall Same names on the crawl Old rules in the air Like dust in your hair They line us up neat Then forget we were there Everybody talk About some famous face But the kid next to me Needs a safer place We pass notes like keys Under desks, under stress Trying to stay human In a building of tests [Pre-Chorus] We don't need the crown We don't need the game We know every scar And we answer to the name One line, one sign We all stand tall From the back row up We break that wall [Chorus] Inmate United Family Locked in, still free Inmate United Family You and me, you and me No more fake kings No more chains on me Inmate United Family That's the way we breathe [Verse 2] Lunchroom politics Small talk, big noise Everybody chasing Other people's joys Celebs on the lips Like a prayer gone cold But I see the kid With the backpack torn old He got jokes in his chest Got fire in his eyes Got a whole world left Behind those tired skies So we build our own lane With a look, with a nod If they call us a problem Then we answer to God [Pre-Chorus] We don't need the crown We don't need the game We know every scar And we answer to [Verse 1] The school got bars on the doors Old rules, old scars in the floors We sit in rows like cells Same bell, same lies, same spells My people pass notes like contraband Laugh real low, got a plan in hand Talking celebs, that's our escape Names on the page while the week still aches [Pre-Chorus] We got no crown But we hold this down Side by side in the same old town If they lock us in We don't fold, we grin [Chorus] Inmate United Family Inmate United Family We trapped, but we still get free Inmate United Family (United, united) (United family) [Verse 2] Hallway buzz like a busted alarm Cheap milk, cold tray, nobody warm Teachers preach from behind that glass We trade our dreams in the back of class One kid swears he met a star One says fame ain't really that far We build our world in the lunchroom smoke Share one joke, then the whole room woke [Pre-Chorus] We got no crown But we hold this down Side by side in the same old town If they lock us in We don't fold, we grin [Chorus] Inmate United Family Inmate United Family We trapped, but we still get free Inmate United Family (United, united) (United family) [Bridge] When the final bell shakes the frame We don't leave here feeling the same We got each other, that's the key Cell by cell, we built family [Final Chorus] Inmate United Family Inmate United Family We trapped, but we still get free Inmate United Family (United, united) (United family)
