The Prisoner (feat. Margeaux Lampley) - Bang-Bang

I'm a prisoner Won't you set me free I'm a prisoner Won't you set me free You could have my body But you can't have me I know I'm a criminal Don't you tell on me I know I'm a criminal Don't you tell on me You can cross your fingers But you can't cross me Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh I'm a prisoner Wont you set me free I'm a prisoner Don't you tell on me You can have my money Have me on my knees You can have my body But you can't have me No you can't have me

Here I am After so many years Hounded by hatred And trapped by fear I'm in a box I've got no place to go If I follow my mind I know I'll slaughter my own Help me I'm the prisoner Won't you hear my plea I need somebody Yeah, to listen to me I beg you Brothers and sisters I'm counting on you (yeah) Black babies in the womb Are shackled and bound Chained by the caveman Who keeps beauty down Smacked on the ass When they're squalling and wet Heir to a spineless man who Never forgets Never forgets that he's a prisoner Can't you hear my plea 'Cause I need somebody Lord knows, to listen to me I'm a stranger to my son who wonders Why his daddy runs, yeah... On my way to work in the morning When I don't give a damn Can't nobody, can't nobody, can't nobody Can't nobody see just who in hell I am? Hemmed in by a suit Yes, all choked up in a tie Ain't no wonder sometimes near morning I hear my woman cry She knows her man is a prisoner Won't you hear my plea Yeah, 'cause I need somebody Woah, to listen to me My woman she don't say But she hates to see her man Chained this way, yeah Help me, I'm the prisoner Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... I'm the prisoner

The prisoner watches through the bars As the sun comes up every day And he's in love with the prison guard The one who locks him in his cage But he doesn't want to make it out Because it won't be the same No matter who he tries to tell They'll never love him the same way Does it matter what he did, if he says he's sorry How long is too long to spend in this cage rotting Does it matter what he did, if he says he's sorry How long is too long The prisoner watches through the bars As the sun comes up every day He counts the nights as he sits and waits But never plans a grand escape No matter what you think you've heard He's getting what he deserves Does it matter what he did, if he says he's sorry How long is too long to spend in this cage rotting Does it matter what he did, if he says he's sorry How long is too long

You figure say, if we do lovi lovi You can't move as a bachelor I fit pull the trigger If you chop anybody Just take me as a prisoner Take me as a prisoner Αsε asε prisoner As a as a prisoner This be more than physical (This be more than physical) More than more than physical (More than more than physical) Αsε asε prisoner I didn't really see this coming But you caught me right in your net And I ain't tryna fly away Boy, your loving got me mad Got me strung and I Don't want no other man The way you turn me on I can't get you out my mind (Out my mind) If we do lovi lovi You can't move as a bachelor I fit pull di trigger If you chop anybody Just take me as a prisoner Αsε asε prisoner This be more than physical (This be more than physical) More than more than physical If you chop anybody Just take me as a prisoner This be more than physical If you chop anybody Just take me as prisoner Take me as a prisoner Αsε asε prisoner This be more than physical If you chop anybody Just take me as a prisoner

I grew where I was planted But I never felt at home My head was filled with questions And my feet, they long to roam My arms reached out like branches But my heart just couldn't stay I left the moment that I could A prisoner of the highway I passed by farms and trailers As I drove through little towns I found trouble in the city I never set my suitcase down And in those empty alleys Where retaining walls decay I just kept a-moving As a prisoner of the highway Ooh, and I don't know where I'm headed Ooh, and I don't know where it ends Well, the wind, it felt like freedom As it whipped through my hair I was everywhere and everyone I was nobody and nowhere Oh, the map was written on my hand And in my DNA I believe that I was meant to be A prisoner of the highway Had chains around my ankles Handcuffs on my wrists I was haunted by decisions And simple things I missed Dear God, why do I wander? Was I born this way? And I prayed He would release me As a prisoner of the highway Ooh, and I don't know where I'm headed Ooh, and I don't know where it ends I sacrificed my family Sacrificed true love I sacrificed my unborn child To the heavens up above Oh, there was not a limit To those I would betray Oh, I was deep down in it As a prisoner of the highway I just kept a-moving As a prisoner of the highway (Highway, ooh)