i spent my last two birthdays in the travis county jail tomorrow i go up with life but i should go straight to hell but hell s got no more room for me and it s got no more time i should be confessin all my crimes four years ago my debt was piled high up on my mind and i devised a plan to rob a bank just to survive when the gun smoke cleared i saw two bodies on the ground 13 hours later i was found no don t you feel any sorrow for the man that i ve been cause in the waking of tomorrow they will find me full of sin well i got news for you i ain t as bad as they say i got news for you looks like that just don t matter today oh well the verdict came in right away guilty indeed 99 to life is what i heard the jury they thought that might impress upon me crime does not pay but i ain t one for listenin today and as the years go by and by upon the shadowed grounds i walk the people and the places of my past have now been lost that man that i ve been is not the man i hoped to be now it s too late to find the good in me don t you feel any sorrow for the man that i ve been cause in the waking of tomorrow they will find me full of sin well i got news for you i ain t as bad as they say i got news for you looks like that just don t matter today don t you feel any sorrow for the man that i ve been cause in the waking of tomorrow they will find me full of sin i got news for you i ain t as bad as they say i got news for you it looks like that just don t matter today oh looks like that just don t matter today