The Prisoner

By Squeeze

On Babylon and On

Released on September 1987

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[Verse 1]

He's taking her away

He's acting like a general

Generally his game

Is so familiar

He wants her to play

With a toaster and a kettle

While he spends his day

Miles from the prisoner


[Pre-Chorus 1]

She reads the stars he reads the sun

No wonder his IQ is below 21


[Verse 2]

He's helping her to see

How happy she is looking

Take it that he'll be

No icing on her cake

O how happy she would be

If someone did the cooking

He's helping her to see

How a marriage can be baked


[Pre-Chorus 2]

Baked like a cake but without the file

The tool that she needs to make her life worthwhile


[Chorus]

She's not a prisoner alone doing time

To love and to cherish for all of her life

To have and to hold, to lock up inside

What can this man know about her heart?

To love ‘til death do us part


[Verse 3]

He's looking everywhere

She is nowhere to be found

And suddenly he cares

His dinner's looking burnt

There's a smell in the air

There's a prisoner in town

He breaks down in his chair

And his face fills with concern


[Pre-Chorus 3]

Concerned that he might not eat tonight

She's broken out of jail and run for her life


[Chorus]

She's not a prisoner alone doing time

To love and to cherish for all of her life

To have and to hold, to lock up inside

What can this man know about her heart?

To love ‘til death do us part


[Outro]

She's not a prisoner alone doing time

To love and to cherish for all of her life

To have and to hold, to lock up inside

She's not a prisoner

She's not a prisoner

She's not, she's not