13 Seconds To Burn

<br>(R.J. Johnson/Owens)<br>I can`t get used to waiting in this cement room<br>all night long I`ll dig to China with my silver spoon<br>I didn`t kill that man I called it self defense<br>now I watch the world go by through a twelve foot barbed wire fence<br>at night I pray that you`ll be true<br>and though I`m locked away my heart belongs to you<br>in a New York minute I`d break through these prison walls<br>in a New York minute I`ll be gone<br>forty years, ten months, three weeks and four days<br>twenty hours, six minutes and thirteen seconds to burn<br>soon I`ll break through<br>I`ll find a Greyhound home to you<br>no more broken bones and frozen toes and dosey does<br>with my man Joe I love him so and if I find the time I`d let him know<br>at night I pray that you`ll be true<br>and though I`m locked away my heart belongs to you<br>in a New York minute I`d break through these prison walls<br>in a New York minute I`ll be gone<br>forty years, ten months, three weeks and four days<br>twenty hours, six minutes and thirteen seconds to burn<br>twenty hours, six minutes and thirteen seconds to burn