Prisoner

from House of Ink (2006) by Kendall Patrick

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listening to this song, i can tell i'd started listening to ani difranco by then, i can also tell i'd finally found a seed for the direction i'd ultimately want my sound to end up as.

this song was definitely rubbing off of ani's "you had time"

also, can you hear the album title in here?

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Prisoner

I am a prisoner of your memory

I can’t let go

Of what might come back so I always hold back

When other lips come to call

I am still sitting on the stairs

In the back of my mind

I’ll drop all my things just to come pick you up

Come home anytime

Come home anytime

Love tries to break my back

But I am stronger than that

I wrote lots of songs, yeah I wrote lots of words

I built you a house

Of ink to remind me that you’ll walk behind me

Until my pen runs out

Now you won’t leave the paper you’ve drawn yourself in

And I don’t want to write over you

But I’m writing more songs and I’m writing more words

When will you give me some room?

Love tries to break my back

And sometimes I’m on the attack

I am still sitting on the stairs

In the back of my mind

I’ll drop all my things just to come pick you up

Come home

Come home any

Come home anytime

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from House of Ink (2006), released September 4, 2020

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Kendall Patrick British Columbia

i write, because there's something in the explaining that makes it all ok

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