COMMON:
This is life in this world
Some things go right
Some things go wrong
It’s just how the world can be
People just wanna be free
Yeah
The verdict came in and it said I was guilty
I looked at the judge, “Hey America built me”
Tried to get rich but they labeled me filthy
Only God can judge me, touch me, feel me
JONAS BROTHERS:
My friend calls me at 9 ‘o clock
Says, “Get the car it’s time to rock”
Never heard him speak this way
COMMON:
Let’s go man
JONAS BROTHERS:
I grab the keys and hit the road
It’s all a flash but who would know
How the story would unfold
Don’t charge me for the crime
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time
JONAS BROTHERS:
Don’t charge me for the crime
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time
JONAS BROTHERS:
Don’t charge me for the crime
My friend gets in the car with bags
Filled to the top with loads of cash
COMMON:
Who needs to pay for that huh
JONAS BROTHERS:
Throws his pistol on the dash
COMMON:
Yeah, it’s time to get money now
JONAS BROTHERS:
He says, “I’m sorry for the crime
That I’ve involved you in this time”
COMMON:
Yeah, yeah
JONAS BROTHERS:
“You’re the only friend I’ve got”
So don’t charge me for the crime
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time
JONAS BROTHERS:
Don’t charge me for the crime
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time, uh
JONAS BROTHERS:
So don’t charge me for the crime
I start to freak and scream so loud
COMMON:
Uh
JONAS BROTHERS:
Just like the females in the crowd
That’s when he gets in my head
COMMON:
Come on man, come on man, you gotta do this
JONAS BROTHERS:
You could live just like a king
With everything you’d ever need
All the dreams of every man
COMMON:
Yeah, yeah
JONAS BROTHERS:
Don’t charge me for the crime
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time
Uh, yeah
JONAS BROTHERS:
Don’t charge me for the crime
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time, you know… uh
JONAS BROTHERS
Don’t charge me
COMMON:
Siren soundin’, my heart was poundin’
I looked at my man as the cops surround him
A teen on the scene with no objective
The American dream can be so deceptive
JONAS BROTHERS:
Now I see the flashing lights
There goes my future and my life
Now I’ve got to do what’s right
COMMON:
Oh no, they got us man, they got us
JONAS BROTHERS:
I stop the car and throw the keys
Out of the window sets me free
I throw the pistol in the back
COMMON:
Ah, ah, ah
JONAS BROTHERS:
I throw him out of the car
I say, “You know me well
I’m not going to jail
I’m not paying your bail
Believe me when I say
They won’t charge me for the crime now”
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time
JONAS BROTHERS:
Yeah
COMMON:
Ha
JONAS BROTHERS:
They won’t charge me for the crime
COMMON:
Wrong place wrong time
JONAS BROTHERS:
They won’t charge me yeah
Oooh
COMMON:
Wrong place
JONAS BROTHERS:
Oh
COMMON:
Wrong time, ha, ha
Wrong place, uh, uh
Wring time
JONAS BROTHERS:
They won’t charge me for the
ALL:
Crime