Wake up screaming it's four in the morning
To the sound of your own front door being kicked in
Dragged from sleep into the cold night air
Police have the power to turn dreams into nightmares
Kicked and punched on your way to the bloody cells
They make up your statement - you've got nothing to tell
Legal aid woman's still drunk from the night before
Doesn't seem to notice when the judge gives you four
- four years

Persona non grata
The prisons are the crime
Persona non grata
With all the weight of time (suspended)

Caged like vermin and left to rot
Worthless little bastard society forgot
To break the spirit ensures complicity
From the damned behind the walls of futility
The system's reality is based on fear
A fucking conspiracy to deny your freedom
Hardship reprisal - the official agenda
How to survive is the only criteria