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“Japanese Prisoner of Love” is the sixth track off 2017’s Pinewood Smile.
Lead singer Justin Hawkins has said the song was inspired by a visit to Alcatraz Penitentiary (a former maximum security federal prison in California which is now a museum).
[I got] to experience solitary confinement. They p...
[Verse 1]
Japanese prisoner of love
Leering at me from the bunk above
The seventh circle of hell, right here in my cell
Did you forget you are a prisoner, as well?
Sensual deprivations
Human rights violations
Enough is enough, when shiv comes to shove
Japanese prisoner of love
[Pre-Chorus]
I used to sleep in a comfortable bed with luxurious sheets
I used to sit on a toilet, with a seat
[Chorus]
And all the other jailbirds on E wing
Cry when I sing
Japanese prisoner of love
[Verse 2]
Sentenced and sent to the big house
Jumpsuited, shaven and de-loused
Solitarily confined, taken by force from behind
By a stubby white supremacist named Klaus
[Pre-Chorus]
I used to think that my life is so sweet, but it's sour
Oh, I used to be alone in the shower
[Chorus]
And all the other jailbirds on E wing
Cry when I sing
[Solo]
[Chorus]
And all the other jailbirds on E wing
Cry when I sing
Japanese prisoner of love (Love, ooh)
(Love)
Japanese prisoner of love
Japanese Prisoner of Love was written by Rufus Tiger Taylor & Frankie Poullain & Dan Hawkins & Justin Hawkins.
Japanese Prisoner of Love was produced by Adrian Bushby.
The Darkness released Japanese Prisoner of Love on Fri Oct 06 2017.