The Prisoner

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D.O.A. is a hardcore punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk, along with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and Middle Class. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to the second wave of the American punk sound as hardcore. Singer/guitarist Joey "Shithead" Keithley is the only founding member to have stayed in the band throughout its entire history. However, original bassist Randy Rampage has been active in the band in recent years and has played on one of the band's last three albums, although he is not in the current lineup. D.O.A. has often released music on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles Records, and they have released an a… more »


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2007
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Apartment walls, halls are small
Government building, site much too small
These tiny boxes won't let me out
These tiny boxes are too remote

It's a screaming mess
Television city dream
Your robot's eyes gleam
In my future dream

It's not fate or chance
It's the money in the bank
Burn their timber and gather bricks
Drive 'em fire, the bloody dicks

It's a screaming mess
And I am the prisoner
The prisoner, the prisoner
Go

? fate or chance
Kick somebody in the face
Burn their timber and gather bricks
Drive 'em fire, the bloody dicks

It's a screaming mess
A television city dream
Your robot's eyes gleam
In my future dream

And I am the prisoner
The prisoner, the prisoner
Well, I am the prisoner
The prisoner, the prisoner

The prisoner

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Written by: ELIZABETH CAROLINE ORTON, WILLIAM ORBIT

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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