Handcuffs - The Front Bottoms

See, I was in handcuffs, no one stood by my side

No one to help me prove my charge was a lie

While some prosecutor screams I’m a terrible guy

That I’m guilty and I deserve 25 to life

See, I lost my temper and the cop lost his cool

A whole can of pepper spray, man, making me look like a fool

And he started stomping as I was gasping for air

Already on the ground, man, I don’t know

That fight don’t seem fair

But with my pain came rage, alight so bright I feel blind

So I reach with my hands and a rock is what I do find

He stops for a moment, I gather my strength

Just enough to swing quickly

And put the rock right through his face

And that’s how it happened, how he met his fate

And how my left eye got burned out by the pepper spray

Some called me a monster, things got super intense

But I don’t think I did nothing wrong

Your Honor, I claim self-defense

First, they talked to his cop friends, and then they talked to his wife

They all said the same thing, he never hurt nothing or no one

In his whole life

They made it seem pretty obvious that I was the one to blame

Even my public defender didn’t have all that much to say

The jury comes back in, trying to look them all in the eyes

Trying to make them feel like taking another life

It don’t make taking the first one right

And I hope that they realize, I hope they truly understand

Just how sorry I am, things got so out of hand

(Wooh!)