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Holding Cell

from What Goes Around by Greg Hawks

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HOLDING CELL
By Greg Hawks
In a holding cell I sit and wait
For what I’ve got myself into
And the jury’s out to deliberate
How much time that I must do
I lost my old man in Desert Storm
Back in 1991
Just a month before the day I was born
To be his only son
Well, I’ve been told that we act just alike
I bet if he was here right now
He’d understand what I did that night
There’s certain things a man can’t allow
But I can’t say I regret what I’ve done
As I sit here in shackles and chains
Holding onto the hope they are free from the pain
And what I did would not be in vain
My mama raised us on her own
And she did the best she could
When it came to the ways of right and wrong
She made sure we understood
After years alone, she met this man
Made her smile and gave her a helping hand
But it all changed when he moved in
And things got worse when she married him
He’d disappear, be gone for days
Come home flat broke in a drunken rage
And I’d hear screams and shouts and slamming doors
Till I couldn’t take it anymore
But I can’t say I regret what I’ve done
As I sit here in shackles and chains
I’m holding on to the hope they are free from the pain
That what I did would not be in vain
Well, my big sister’s name was Mary Lee
And she tried to keep him away from me
Because she knew one day that I would see
The kind of sorry man that he could be
Well, the way he looked at Mary Lee
Made me so mad I could not see
Now that night seems like an awful blur
When I found him having his way with her
With a two-by-four and a hunting knife
I knocked him out and I took his life
And I been told that most agree
They’d have done the same if they were me
But I can’t say I regret what I’ve done
As I sit here in shackles and chains
I’m holding on to the hope they are free from the pain
That what I did would not be in vain

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from What Goes Around, released April 19, 2015

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Greg Hawks Chapel Hill, North Carolina

In 2001, Hawks released his country album, Fool’s Paradise (YepRoc) to local and national acclaim. The song "Where I'm Not" is featured in the movie Jeepers Creepers.

In 2007 Hawks released a bluegrass album, Coming Home.

Hawks' third album, What Goes Around (2015), is a blend of soul pop, country blues, swampy groove, rootsy country ballads, honky-tonk shuffle, and hard-driving bluegrass. ... more

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