Battering down sentence, Fighting Against Convictions (2X)  I find myself growing in an environment   Where finding food is just as hard as paying the rent  In trodding these roads of trials and tribulations  I've seen where some have died in desperation  To keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)    In a family of ten and raised in the ghetto  Hustling is the only education I know  Can't grow no crops in this concrete jungle  A situation like this is getting too hard to handle  To keep battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)    With a pregnant woman, yes  And five kids to care for  Can't cool my heels, I've got to do the town  As skillful as I am, the jailer-man is bound to find me  I pray the day will come when I shall be free from   Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)    To be trapped and caught and taken before judge and angry jury  Pleading before men, who seem to have no mercy  Can't afford to find myself down in the dungeons  I've got to stay free so that my kids won't be  Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions (2X)    Now a fugitive at large  Could this be my destiny  With no one to care for the wellfare of my family  But in solitude I've found new faith and hope in this I'll be secure  For mind and soul would soon be weary  Just couldn't take no more  Battering down sentence, fighting against convictions