[Intro]
Lock the doors
Pull the files
Mugshot grin
Crooked smile (yeah)
[Verse 1]
Criminal record in a shoebox
Probation letters under bed socks
High school said I was dead stock
Now they stream my sins like a TED talk
Bus pass
Court dates
Same hoodie, three days
Lunch line, pocket change, cheap plate
Still drew maps out the steel gates
Mama yelling through the bedroom door
“You ain’t built for that metal door”
I’m learning math from the bailiff form
That’s how I count what I’m headed for
[Chorus]
Permanent detention
Life wrote me up, I ain’t ask for attention (nah)
Tattooed tension
Every bad choice got a vivid extension
I turn that stress into bounce, into venom (venom)
Laugh in the face of the sentence they sendin’
Dropout, drop twenty bars in a second
Permanent detention, but I turned it to a weapon (hey!)
[Verse 2]
Horror in the hallway, lockers like coffins
Chalk line dreams where the gym lights soften
Principal said, “Boy, you lost it”
Now I sign checks where my F’s once haunted
Back of the class, back of the bus
Back of the cop car, hands in cuffs
They said “statistics”
I said “twist it”
Turn every number to a witness
Graffiti my name on the case file
Turn every charge to a stage dive
Dark thoughts doing parkour in my brain
Still land clean when I aim high
[Chorus]
Permanent detention
Life wrote me up, I ain’t ask for attention
Tattooed tension
Every bad choice got a vivid extension
I turn that stress into bounce, into venom (venom)
Laugh in the face of the sentence they sendin’
Dropout, drop twenty bars in a second
Permanent detention, but I turned it to a weapon (yeah)
[Bridge]
Flip that scar into sound
Every curse word, crowd gets loud (woah)
If I fall flat, I rebound
They tried to cancel me, I re‑announced
Name in the file, name on the flyer
Same cold world, but the heat’s higher
From the back row to the barbed wire
To the front row chantin’ my priors (yeah)
[Chorus]
Permanent detention
Life wrote me up, I ain’t ask for attention
Tattooed tension
Every bad choice got a vivid extension
I turn that stress into bounce, into venom
Laugh in the face of the sentence they sendin’
Dropout, drop twenty bars in a second
Permanent detention, but I turned it to a weapon (weapon)