The Time-Out Prison Blues

[Verse] I've been a rambler since the first day I could crawl, Got my little sister, she’s my partner in it all. We was playing in the living room, no harm we thought we'd do, 'Til a toy went flyin' and sister started to boo-hoo. [Verse 2] Momma stormed in like a sheriff with the truth blind as can be, She didn't see that sister started aiming that doll at me. But it’s me she’s draggin', to the corner, mad and wild, Sentenced to a time-out, the tears of a misunderstood child. [Chorus] I got the Time-Out Prison Blues, Locked up for crimes I didn’t choose. Staring at the wall, feeling so small, Momma’s justice got no excuse, I got the Time-Out Prison Blues. [Verse 3] Sitting here in silence while my sister’s out there free, The innocence of toddlerhood feels like a cruel mystery. I see her smilin', playin' with those blocks I used before, No one knows the truth but me, and the hardwood bedroom floor. [Verse 4] Momma ain't a-knowin' what went down that fateful time, I'm just a victim of a crime that didn't fit the grime. She never asked the real side of this tale so wild and true, But my heart knows, and it won't forget the colors red and blue. [Chorus] I got the Time-Out Prison Blues, Sitting here in these toddler shoes. Momma's law is wrong, it won’t be long, 'Til she learns just what she’ll lose, I got the Time-Out Prison Blues.