Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This version of "Time Served" is off of Dispatch's new live album, Live 18, out now on the band's own Bomber Records. It was recorded the summer of 2018 during the band's tour across the United States that year.

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CREDITS:
Filmed and Edited by Mike Smith
Audio Mixed by Brett Eliason
Audio Mastered by Dave Cooley

LYRICS:
Hold up the firing line hold up the fire
Walk away counting backwards from nine
Hold up the firing line hold steady on the trigger's time
Walk away counting backwards from nine
Holding his breath so to start his own dying
Time time served to the ones that left you here
No people here only names soon to be put to numbers so its one in the same
It's anyone's game as long as the fire flickers
The throat stickers they place their bet the trouble is that no one's added it up quite yet
Cause when they do when they do when they do when they do
It'll be a riot and the wire is down
Hold up for the fury to sound hold up your head from the ground or they'll keep you on it
Your time time served to the ones who left you here
From tower to wall to guard to guard to wall
Ever ready for the fire to fall
The confines haven't seen the sun since the lifers let go of their irrelevant innocence
But long before a single round was shot word spread from block to block to cell block
They're going to take him and make an example of him for the escapees to fear
The incoming of the incoming of the gun oncoming another year
You either die on the inside or trying to get out the choice is yours the choice is here
Time time served to the ones who left you here
Time time served to the ones who left you here