Sign up | Sign in

or
Submit my song

Tony Floyd Kenna - Done My Time © / 03 November 2010 / Rock-Pop
  • Current rating: 2.31132075471698/6
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6


Other available songs

Play all

"Done My Time" lyrics

Done My Time

 

I’ve done the crime

Now I’ve goin’a do the time

I’ve done the crime

Now I’ve goin’a do the time

But nobody’s gonna tell me

That my life ain’t mine.

 

I worked all my life

I worked for thirty years

I worked all my life

I worked for thirty years

& then one day they fired me

I was close to tears.

 

I lost my home

Lost my family too

I lost my home

Lost my family too

Saw some money on the counter

Didn’t know what to do

 

It won’t be too long

Before they let me out

It won’t be too long

Before they let me out

Gonna run to the ocean

Gonna scream and shout

 

I done the crime

Now I’ve done my time

I done the crime

Now I’ve done my time

Now freedom is the thing

That tells me life is mine.

 

 

 

 

Words and music by Tony Floyd Kenna August 2010

 

 

About my song

Blues song here, inspired (as many recent ones have been) by the effects of the recession. Basic story is job lost, tempted to steal to survive, lost it all, done the time and out now. Just showing how this could be any one of us, given certain circumstances, not just the usual suspects. Deeper message is that freedom is really all we have, cherish it, make good decisions, move on from the bad ones, stuff like that!

This song is going to be covered by both Good Intentions and Maggies Farm, so excited by that. Perhaps even more exciting is that ‘The Blues Train’ on Dublin City FM103.2 played my version a few weeks ago! hope you like it. T. (my version here, I play everything, like it or not!).

http://www.myspace.com/tonyfloydkenna