When I got locked up, I was in a young, dumb, rowdy phaseStill hanging on to my bachelor days You were still praying for me to start changingmy ways Thirty years old and still acting a foolDamn near the same kid you met back in school I thought I might have lost you, yeah, I thoughtit might have cost me The love and the light of my lifeThe night I got locked up, everything went wrongThe night I got messed up, should've just stayed homePicked up my phone, what can I say Well, I thought that you'd walk awayBut you stood by your man, tell me why then It hits us praying, we could've just quitNo, but you showed me love You didn't go when the going got toughThe night I got locked upI remember how you looked like your name You finally gave it to me after the gameWe floated on the breeze for like a year and some changeI knew you were down for me back when we met But I didn't know how down for me you'd really getWhen you picked up my pieces and my only call I knew you were in, baby, in for the long haulThe night I got locked up, everything went wrongThe night I got messed up, should've just stayed homePicked up my phone, what can I say Well, I thought that you'd walk awayBut you stood by your man, tell me why then It hits us praying, we could've just quitNo, but you showed me love You didn't go when the going got toughThe night I got locked upThe night I got locked upGirl, you forgave me for my sins You put it down and you ain't brought it up sinceI knew that I was done, I knew you were the one, yeah, yeah, yeahThe night I got locked up, everything went wrongThe night I got messed up, should've just stayed homePicked up my phone, what can I say Well, I thought that you'd walk awayBut you stood by your man, tell me why then It hits us praying, we could've just quitNo, but you showed me love You didn't go when the going got toughThe night I got locked upBut you stood by your man