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Jack in a box

Jack was a boy who struggled in school 

Getting suspended ...for breaking the rules 

He would wonder the streets and rob out the shops 

Take milk from the doorsteps and lead from roof tops 

His mum was an addict his dad wasn't there 

Troubled young Jack got put in to care 

Stuck in the system.. Jack's just a number

From pillar to post now split from his brother 

He's mixing...

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Who are the real Monsters?

Isn't imprisonment enough?
Without the guards being too rough
And forever being cuffed
Prisoners  are abused and raped
Every damn single day
As if they haven't already paid
By being held captive and afraid.

 

Isn't imprisonment enough?
Without being forced to confess
To somebody else's mess
Being stripped and undressed
Every damn single day
As if they haven't already paid
By bein...

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Free

Free

 

My name is juvenile delinquent

I’m losing my mind now,

it happens again and I can’t do anything about it.

Anxiety, anger, confusion, depression and loneliness

fight to get a foothold in my beleaguered mind.

Just about to go mad, insanity beckons,

don’t let my neurosis lead to psychosis.

I don’t want to be a Section 20, locked up forever

with only bars as my com...

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