Prison Lyrics - New Model Army

The curtain breathes, the air swims 

The sweat dries cold on the shivering skin 

The sheets they twist and turn again, round and round 

My mother she feeds and cares for me 

Shackled to responsibility 

All her precious dreams for me crashing down 

Ch: Tell them all to go away, tell them all I'll be OK 

Tell them all just not today, not today . . . 

They're building special facilities 

Laboratory animals die for me 

I live with my humility - humility 

November 1989, they're dancing on the Berlin Wall tonight 

I feel the flow of history and have no part 

Ch: Tell them all to go away, tell them all I'll be OK 

Tell them all just not today, not today . . . 

A little night in town we said - oh I remember very well 

They'll be out of prison soon and me I'm locked forever in this . . . 

I went for my mother to a holy shrine 

The wheelchairs rattled through the afternoon 

Over the cobbles and up the hill 

In an ordered procession of desperate will 

It hurts just the way it hurts today 

Those moments come, then recede away 

Better to accept what you cannot change 

The less the pain . . . 

Ch: Tell them all to go away, tell them all I'll be OK 

Tell them all just not today, not today . . .