Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
All of the prisoners serving life sentences
Wait for the earth to suddenly shake
For the walls to somehow suddenly come crumbling, tumbling and
For the bars to somehow magically break
Aw, there's nothing wrong with them
That a thousand bucks can't fix
That a thousand arms can't hold down
In the ground they're tattooing the stones with
Cusses like cavemen, "Your momma was here"
They want to run through the air with no barriers or obstacles
Gunmen or guard dogs or priests
And to rise from the mud and start over and over
With the people all dead, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
If Hans Christian Andersen could've had his way with me
Then none of this shit would have ever gone down
In my cell, I'm tattooing myself with
Mermaids and swallows and though I do swallow
My mama thinks I'm grown but I'm really just little and
Someday I will remember
Someday I will remember
Someday I will remember...
Prisoners was written by Regina Spektor.
Prisoners was produced by Regina Spektor & Joe Mendelson.
Regina Spektor released Prisoners on Mon Feb 25 2002.
In 2020, Regina Spektor released a music video collaboration for this song on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. About it, she said,
The song we chose was an older song called “Prisoners”, and it was reimagined for the stage with the help of Caleb Teicher, the brilliant and beautiful tap dancer an...