Regina Spektor Prisoners song lyrics

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—yo' momma was here

But 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 still little and.

Someday I will remember

Someday I will remember

Someday I will remember