Locked Up - The Avett Brothers

I can’t take the criticism

I’m eaten up with cynicism

All the colors in the prism entering my eyes

Still can’t change my mind

I’m a stubborn goat getting older

A cube of ice getting colder

Frozen heart and frozen shoulders

That is what I’ve got

A sweetheart I am not

Now I’ll soften when it pays the bills

I’ll love you in exchange for thrills

I’ll surface 'cause withdrawal kills

I can smell fresh blood from miles away

I can’t be locked up this way

I can’t be locked up this way

I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up this way

I have been their slave but I’m tired of working

I’m a jackhammer tired of jerking

I’m a booty shaker tired of twerking

You can laugh all you want

Soon enough though I’ll be gone

I’m a dying fly on the wall

I’m a teenage girl who just won’t call

I’m a deflated basketball

No needle to be found

And I just want to be round

So I can roll, so I can bounce

So I can roll out of this town

I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up this way

I can’t be locked up like this

Now I’m the worst ship that was ever built

Started sinking soon as the champagne spilt

All the dirty secrets in my quilt

They won’t come out in the wash

Somebody help my gosh

I’m a beating heart off the beating path

The God of shame, feel my wrath

Can my filthy soul take a bath

In the light of you, in the light of truth

In the light of you

No I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up this way

Oh, no, I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up like this

I can’t be locked up like this