The Prisoner

The prisoner meets the Muppet hi-fi

North of Watford Junction

We get in but we don't have fun

And we leave before the truncheons

Back to watch the day to day

Saga of working people

Hanging out the washing clipping coupons

And generally being decent



"Johnny Too Bad" meets "Johnny B. Goode"

In the Charing Cross Road

The only thing that happened today

The West End jungle code

All the Germans and all the French

Jam themselves down the tube

And re-enact the second world war

While the rude boys get rude



And I look to my left

And I look to my right

And I'm looking for a man

I'm looking for a sign

I don't wanna be the prisoner

I don't wanna be the prisoner

I don't wanna be the prisoner

I don't wanna be the prisoner



The prisoner lives in Camden Town

Selling revolution

The prisoner loads his tracking arm up

With self-dissollution

Your mother does the washing up

Your old man digs the garden

You're only free to dodge the cops

And bunk the train to stardom



And I look to my left

And I look to my right

And I'm looking for a man

I'm looking for a sign

I don't wanna be the prisoner

I don't wanna be the prisoner

I don't wanna be the prisoner

I don't wanna be the prisoner