Regina Spektor - Prisoners

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

Oh 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 curses like cavemen
"Your mama 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
Uh uh uh uh uh

If Hans Christian Anderson could have 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