Charles Solitude - Death Row Records

For my brother Charles Mamou JR. aka Chuck

[Verse]
Charles sits in his lonely cell
Counting cracks within the wall
Life in solitary a living hell
Each tick reminds him of the fall

[Verse 2]
No hugs since nineteen ninety-eight
Surrounded by shadows all alone
Time drags heavy as iron gates
In a world cold as stone

[Chorus]
In the silence he fights the cries
For the souls that share his fate
Against the needle and the lies
In a world poisoned by hate

[Verse 3]
Day by day the minutes shrink
Hope is a whisper in the night
Solitude drives him to the brink
But he holds on with all his might

[Bridge]
He dreams of a touch he can't recall
The warmth of love now seems so far
In a space where silence haunts the hall
He counts the blows without a scar

[Chorus]
In the silence he fights the cries
For the souls that share his fate
Against the needle and the lies
In a world poisoned by hate