The Tower Lyrics

Song	The Tower
Artist	Ice T
Album	Greatest Hits: The Evidence
Download	Image LRC TXT

	I'm rollin' up in a big gray bus
	And i'm shackled down
	Myself that's who i trust
	The minute i arrived
	Some sucker got hit
	Shanked ten times
	Behind some bullshit
	Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
	So without hesitatin'
	I made a weapon quick
	If found a sharp piece of metal
	Taped it to a stick
	Then a bullhorn sounds
	That means it's time for chow
	My first prison meal
	The whole feeling was foul
	It wasn't quite my style
	But my stomach growled
	So i flushed the shit down
	And hit the weight pile
	The brothers was swole
	The attitudes was cold
	Felt the tension on the yard
	From the young and the old
	But i'm a warrior
	I got my ground to hold
	So i studied the inmates
	To see who hd the power
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower!
	In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
	Blacks put their backs to the wall
	Cause it was north and south
	A gun man shouts
	And everybody had doubt
	Until the bullets started fly'n
	Took two men out
	Thn they rushed everybody
	Back to their cells
	Damn the pen is different than
	The county jail
	I'm in a one man cell
	I know my life's on a scale
	I wonder if that gunman is goin' to hell
	This is my second day
	I got a ten year stay
	I learned my first lesson
	In the pen you don't plaay
	I saw a brother kill another
	Cause he said he was gay
	But that's the way it is
	It been that way for years
	And when his body hit the ground
	I heard a couple of cheers
	It kind of hurt me inside
	That they were glad he died
	And i ask myself
	Just who had the power?
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower!
	You see the whites got a thing
	The call white pride
	The blacks got the muscle
	Mexicans got the knives
	You better be wise
	You wanna stay alive
	Go toe to toe with a sucka
	No matter wht size
	A fool tried to sweat me
	Act'n like he was hard
	I stuck him twice in　the neck
	And left him dead in the yard
	It was smooth how i did it
	Cause nobody could see
	With my jacket on my arm
	And my knife on the side of me
	Bam bam, it was over
	Another one bites the dust
	I went crazy in the pen
	With nobody to trust
	Bench'n ten quarters, so i'm hard to sweat
	Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
	They call me a lifer
	Cause i'm good as dead
	I live in the hole, so the floor's my bed
	And i ask myself again
	Who has the power
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower

	I' m rollin' up in a big gray bus
	And i' m shackled down
	Myself that' s who i trust
	The minute i arrived
	Some sucker got hit
	Shanked ten times
	Behind some bullshit
	Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
	So without hesitatin'
	I made a weapon quick
	If found a sharp piece of metal
	Taped it to a stick
	Then a bullhorn sounds
	That means it' s time for chow
	My first prison meal
	The whole feeling was foul
	It wasn' t quite my style
	But my stomach growled
	So i flushed the shit down
	And hit the weight pile
	The brothers was swole
	The attitudes was cold
	Felt the tension on the yard
	From the young and the old
	But i' m a warrior
	I got my ground to hold
	So i studied the inmates
	To see who hd the power
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower!
	In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
	Blacks put their backs to the wall
	Cause it was north and south
	A gun man shouts
	And everybody had doubt
	Until the bullets started fly' n
	Took two men out
	Thn they rushed everybody
	Back to their cells
	Damn the pen is different than
	The county jail
	I' m in a one man cell
	I know my life' s on a scale
	I wonder if that gunman is goin' to hell
	This is my second day
	I got a ten year stay
	I learned my first lesson
	In the pen you don' t plaay
	I saw a brother kill another
	Cause he said he was gay
	But that' s the way it is
	It been that way for years
	And when his body hit the ground
	I heard a couple of cheers
	It kind of hurt me inside
	That they were glad he died
	And i ask myself
	Just who had the power?
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower!
	You see the whites got a thing
	The call white pride
	The blacks got the muscle
	Mexicans got the knives
	You better be wise
	You wanna stay alive
	Go toe to toe with a sucka
	No matter wht size
	A fool tried to sweat me
	Act' n like he was hard
	I stuck him twice in　 the neck
	And left him dead in the yard
	It was smooth how i did it
	Cause nobody could see
	With my jacket on my arm
	And my knife on the side of me
	Bam bam, it was over
	Another one bites the dust
	I went crazy in the pen
	With nobody to trust
	Bench' n ten quarters, so i' m hard to sweat
	Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
	They call me a lifer
	Cause i' m good as dead
	I live in the hole, so the floor' s my bed
	And i ask myself again
	Who has the power
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower

	I' m rollin' up in a big gray bus
	And i' m shackled down
	Myself that' s who i trust
	The minute i arrived
	Some sucker got hit
	Shanked ten times
	Behind some bullshit
	Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
	So without hesitatin'
	I made a weapon quick
	If found a sharp piece of metal
	Taped it to a stick
	Then a bullhorn sounds
	That means it' s time for chow
	My first prison meal
	The whole feeling was foul
	It wasn' t quite my style
	But my stomach growled
	So i flushed the shit down
	And hit the weight pile
	The brothers was swole
	The attitudes was cold
	Felt the tension on the yard
	From the young and the old
	But i' m a warrior
	I got my ground to hold
	So i studied the inmates
	To see who hd the power
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower!
	In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
	Blacks put their backs to the wall
	Cause it was north and south
	A gun man shouts
	And everybody had doubt
	Until the bullets started fly' n
	Took two men out
	Thn they rushed everybody
	Back to their cells
	Damn the pen is different than
	The county jail
	I' m in a one man cell
	I know my life' s on a scale
	I wonder if that gunman is goin' to hell
	This is my second day
	I got a ten year stay
	I learned my first lesson
	In the pen you don' t plaay
	I saw a brother kill another
	Cause he said he was gay
	But that' s the way it is
	It been that way for years
	And when his body hit the ground
	I heard a couple of cheers
	It kind of hurt me inside
	That they were glad he died
	And i ask myself
	Just who had the power?
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower!
	You see the whites got a thing
	The call white pride
	The blacks got the muscle
	Mexicans got the knives
	You better be wise
	You wanna stay alive
	Go toe to toe with a sucka
	No matter wht size
	A fool tried to sweat me
	Act' n like he was hard
	I stuck him twice in　 the neck
	And left him dead in the yard
	It was smooth how i did it
	Cause nobody could see
	With my jacket on my arm
	And my knife on the side of me
	Bam bam, it was over
	Another one bites the dust
	I went crazy in the pen
	With nobody to trust
	Bench' n ten quarters, so i' m hard to sweat
	Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
	They call me a lifer
	Cause i' m good as dead
	I live in the hole, so the floor' s my bed
	And i ask myself again
	Who has the power
	The whites? the blacks?
	Or just the gun tower

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