• Song:

    Prisoner

  • Artist:

    Levellers

  • Album:

    Make U Happy

Intro:

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Verse 1:

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Five in the morning an hour before dawn, they wake her up in her bed

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Standing over her body, and holding a gun to her head

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She says "why have you come, oh and what have I done"

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They'll tell her "it's come to defeat"

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Then they kick through her paintings, and drag her out into the street

Chorus 1:

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Oh my love, don't take any-more

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Oh my love, break down the door

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Verse 2:

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By day they take her, and interiogate her

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and tell her "she's crude and insane"

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but by night the same keepers, will steal in and rape her aain

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She can't see who they are, through the thick black bars

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That cast shadows over her eyes

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And if she resists, they'll beat hear with fists til she cries

Chorus 2:

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Oh my love, don't take any-more

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Oh my love, break down the door

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Oh my love, there's a sun in the east

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Its your release

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Verse 3:

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So you the dictator, whose choosen to hate her

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tellin' ya to listen to me

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There are others who'll fight for the right
   
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to be tender and free

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If she dies at your hands, just you understand

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I've a knife that is sharp and clean

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And i'll paint in your blood, til it turns to a flood

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Let her be

Chorus 3:

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Oh my love, don't take any-more

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Oh my love, break down the door

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Oh my love, there's a sun in the east

          A5
It's your release
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