The Shape I'm In

Save your neck or save your brother
I'll just be lookin' for my maker
For the crime of having nowhere to go
And I hear that that's where she's been?
I'm gonna go down by the water

Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in
You know they feel you're tryin' to shuck us
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in
Now, how in the world do you get to Heaven
But I ain't gonna jump in, no, no

Has anybody seen my lady
Now here I am back out on the street
For the crime of having no dough, no no
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in
Looks like it's one or the other

I've just spent 60 days in the jail house
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

This livin' alone would drive me crazy
Now two young kids might start a ruckus
Oh, out of nine lives, I spent seven