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Screeching Weasel – The Prisoner (2000) | Track profile | Dork

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Thank You Very Little
The Prisoner

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Screeching Weasel

The Prisoner

Release date: 1st February 2000

From Thank You Very Little

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About This Track

"The Prisoner" is a track by Screeching Weasel, from the album Thank You Very Little, released 1st February 2000. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Screeching Weasel

Screeching Weasel

Lyrics

The Prisoner

[Intro]

Ya hey

[Verse 1]

Apartment walls, halls are small

Government building site much too small

These tiny boxes won't let me out

These tiny boxes are so remote

[Chorus 1]

It's a screaming mess

A television city dream

Your robot's eyes gleam

In my future dream

[Interlude]

Ya hey

[Verse 2]

It's not fate or chance

It's the money in the bank

Burn their timber, gather bricks

Drive 'em on fire, those bloody pricks

[Chorus 2]

It's a screaming mess

And I am the prisoner

(The prisoner, the prisoner)

Go

[Verse 3]

Forget about fate or chance

Kick somebody in the teeth

Burn their timber, gather bricks

Drive 'em on fire, them bloody dicks

[Chorus 1]

It's a screaming mess

A television city dream

Your robot's eyes gleam

In my future dream

[Chorus 2]

And I am the prisoner

(The prisoner, the prisoner)

And I am the prisoner

(The prisoner, the prisoner)

[Outro]

Hey, hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey, hey

The prisoner

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Track details

From Thank You Very Little

2000

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Album

Thank You Very Little

Screeching Weasel

Release year

2000

—Hey Suburbia [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Cindy's On Methadone [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Eine Kleine Scheissemusic
—Goodbye To You [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—I Love Beer [live]
—Shirley's On Methadone
—Slogans [early version]
—Squeaky Clean
—Stuck Out Here
—You're The Enemy [rehearsal]
—Totally [alternate version]
—Crawl
—Amy Saw Me Looking At Her Boobs
—27 Things I Wanna Do To You
—Around On You [rehearsal]
—Inside Out [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Automatic Rejector [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—I Hate Old Folks [demo]
—Electroshock Therapy
—Can't Take It
—Joanie Loves Johnny [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Veronica Hates Me [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Totally [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Science of Myth [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Teenage Freakshow [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—I'm Gonna Strangle You [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—I Need Therapy [demo]
—Lose The Dink
—Nightbreed [early version]
—Nothing Matters [demo]
—Someday
—Slogans [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—The Prisoner
—Tightrope
—Intro [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Supermarket Fantasy [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—You Are My Sunshine
—Crying In My Beer [demo]
—Every Night [alternate version]
—Anchor
—Guest List [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—I Can See Clearly Now [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Jeannie's Got A Problem With Her Uterus [demo]
—I Was a High School Psychopath [live, Philadelphia 1993]
—Fuck You
—Suspect Device
—Dirt
—Suzanne Is Getting Married
—Waiting For Susie

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