"mother, I'm not a criminal" genre: Thrash/Speed Metal
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	they force square pegs into round holes
	CD: when the nights close in   Label: youth empowerment record collective Credits: recorded by brian stegall, written by YEP
	Story Behind the Song A large portion of the current prison population is made up of people suffering from mental illness who have been imprisoned for very minor usually non-violent crimes under draconian rules such as the three strikes law. ORten these offenders do not even understand what they have done and they are preyed upon by other inmates. These people need compassion not incarceration. Lyrics see his face through the bars truth falls from quivering lips "mother, I'm not a criminal" he says the world's not listening He'll sob in his cell tonight but at least he's not alone incarceration for the crime of not thinking straight they force square pegs into round holes so that others won't have to face them, help them, support them, or do anything other than go on like nothing's happened.

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