Bunny Wailer - Fighting Against Conviction Lyrics
Battering down sentence, Fighting Against Convictions (2X)I find myself growing in an environmentWhere finding food is just as hard as paying the rentIn trodding these roads of trials and tribulationsI've seen where some have died in desperationTo keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)In a family of ten and raised in the ghettoHustling is the only education I knowCan't grow no crops in this concrete jungleA situation like this is getting too hard to handleTo keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)With a pregnant woman, yesand five kids to care forCan't cool my heels, I've got to do the townAs skillful as I am, the jailer-man is bound to find meI pray the day will come when I shall be free fromBattering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)To be trapped and caught and taken before judge and angry juryPleading before men, who seem to have no mercyCan't afford to find myself down in the dungeonsI've got to stay free so that my kids won't beBattering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)Now a fugitive at largeCould this be my destinyWith no one to care for the wellfare of my familyBut in solitude I've found new faith and hope in this I'll be secureFor mind and soul would soon be wearyJust couldn't take no moreBattering down sentence, fighting against convictions
