Can't Be Nothin' I Ain't Lyrics

On a prison phone, I said I wasn't sure

I wanted to live this life anymore

Please forgive me, dear, for I misspoke

But this place has got me against the ropes

And sometimes my words get ahead of my brain

I didn't mean to worry you, that's just who I am

I can't be nothin' I ain't

Still I wish I had shown some restraint

On Water Street, that night in July

Every day it takes hold of my mind

The man in the gold chain and the baggy white shirt

Came up from behind and reached his hand up your skirt

And sometimes my hands get ahead of my brain

I pulled out my knife, pushed it deep past his chain

I can't be nothin' I ain't

Still I wish I had shown some restraint

He fell to the ground, there was nothing to be done

He was dead before the ambulance come

I got fifteen years for my short fuse

Fifteen years in government shoes

And I'll never get the sight out of my head

How his eyes bulged out as his shirt dripped red

I can't be nothin' I ain't

Still I wish I had shown some restraint

I can't be nothin' I ain't

Still I wish I had shown some restraint