[Lyric] Letter From Leavenworth (Code Blue)

Dear Code Blue

I'm only twenty years old
I'll be here twenty more
It's the kind of place where they throw away the key
Before they lock the door

I know that somewhere, I went wrong
But what else could I do?
I could say that the devil made me do it
But I know that's just not true

They say that I hardly had time to live
That my life had just begun
But I'll be a free man in 2001

I had a dream I found a twenty in my pocket
I had another dream they shut the door and forgot to lock it
I tried my hand at poetry, but I got no sense of rhyme
I suppose it goes to show I'm not the "sensitive kind"
And Dean, I'd like to learn to play guitar
Just the way you do
But every time I touch those six steel strings
I feel the bars I can't fit through

I know there's a great wide world out there
Underneath the sun
Hope it's still around in 2001

Sometimes the guys 'round here
Make an offer I can't refuse
Sometimes I see a stranger in the mirror
And feel a stranger in my shoes

But I won't be afraid
No, I won't come undone
'Cause I got a date with 2001

And there's a girl that I might look up
When my time is done
Hope she's still around in 2001

I hear there's a brave new world out there
Here I come
2001