Prisoner

The Jezabels Prisoner Lyrics
1.Prisoner

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

So, you say you're a prisoner
I put my name on you
But my name
Well, it don't belong to me

So, of whom are you a prisoner?
Should I tear them asunder?
Should I steal their thunder?
I would do that for you

Lying here, cold on floor
Gives me the feeling that there isn't to be any more

This dream between us
Tears me apart
You got the vision to draw a design on my heart

Come on down, my special friend
Come be the one to call me back into the dance

This dream between us
Rips me away
Bringing the color of love back into the day

Begin again


2.Endless Summer

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

And in the morning I'll be waiting,
For your never-ending wave,
For our passage to arise,
How can I explain it?
Yeah.

You came home for the endless summer,
On the white, saw a different color,
In the streets, you got a secret to repeat,
In my mind, you're the ephemeral kind.

Never too late to be touched by,
The feasting tendrils of the night,
Now left to ponder your devotions,
Now left imagining a time.

You came home for the endless summer,
Watch me go paint a famous warrior,
Of the light, you were the strongest follower,
In my mind you are an endless summer!
An endless summer in my mind,
An endless summer in my mind,
An endless summer in my mind.

Yeah, I get low and black witches hold my hand,
Yeah, I get low, feel no one understands,
Now mistakes, make mantelpieces bend,
Now, black cinders, black cinder til the end.

You came home for the endless summer,
Watch me go, paint a different color,
Of my life, you were the deepest lover,
Stay with me, here in the endless summer!
An endless summer in my mind.
An endless summer in my mind.
An endless summer in my mind.


3.Long Highway

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

You see this writing on the wall
Oh, angel, you see this curtain fall
Good times seem so far away
Just a memory, old and grey

And there was no one like you
You rip apart the clouds in all my days
Others all fade away

On this long highway
Mesmerising
Long highway
Paralysing
Long highway

And you may find your place to run to
In winter frosts, your bed to climb to
But I have seen down deep inside you
They won't love you quite like I do

Look around, something real
Touch something you can feel
I found my dreams were ordinary
Let me turn to sand
Still will be waiting for you
Still, it will be there

In the color of rose in the sky
In the ever-steady glow of your eye
Let it all fade away

Long highway
Mesmerising
Long highway
Paralysing
I'm on my way

So, looking back
You with your hands on your face
Did I drift into your mind?
Did I find a place?
All that we had here,
Did it happen everyday?

Long highway
Terrorising
When I call your name
You stand before me

Hear me roar
Hear me roar
Hear me roar


4.Try Colour

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

Great conversation
Smother it on me
Journey my soul over town

You seem like a write-off
Compromising
Going for mind over mind

Take all of my heartache
And salt to rub on it
Getting up closer tonight

If you dream of tomorrow
Pass me another
It can wait 'til some other time

Do you chang-chang-chang, change to full throttle?
Or do you fling fling fling, fling it a bottle?
Oooh, lover, come hover
I lie, open, done hopin'

Make me shiver
Go down to it
Make a hell of a morning
Bring me some gold from the vine

Stuck like the starlight
You pick your own fight baby
Laughing while both of us drown

And your secrets chained, secrets chained to you
Cause me pain when you move my way

Hey, liar, called desire
How high can you siphon my typhoon?

And the different name that drove you to violence
Burn it up
Wanna see you coming home in my life
And the different sound that fell into silence
Turn it up
Wanna see you coming home in my life

In my dreams I've been a stranger
Don't know why I wanna go inside her
In my dreams I've been a stranger
I've been on fire to go inside her

Make me shiver
Go down to it
Make me shiver
Go down to it
You and your heartstrings
In a secret apartment, playing your heartstrings


5.Rosebud

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

Nightly
You call me to the site of a great divide
It always seems
You can't be turnin' round once you choose to ride
That's how it seems

Do you recall
Dancing as a child like a figurine?
With your deep soul
Fingering your mouth in the moonbeams

You know it's alright now
I'll keep you rosebud of the morn
And all residue

So keep rolling forward

Because you loved me
Your words linger on
Oh no, don't go so eager
Don't walk into the sun

You're looking round, looking good
Looking just how it should
Heart of gold, lock it tight
Everything else left behind

On titans' motorbikes
And I feel it in the way she walk
I hold on through the night
I need a limit
Even in the way she walk

And all the way sitting on the window
All the way, sitting on the sideline
On the side of your line
And all the way, sitting on the window
All the way, sitting on the pane
Will the same old sorrow still be tomorrow?
Still be tomorrow

Oh, my sweet friend
On whom I could call and depend
All of my sweet friends
Gone into horizons

Well it's alright now
I'll keep you, rosebud of the morning
Baby, and all residue


6.City Girl

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

No more will I look around and wonder how it all began
No more will I look around for you

Flex a muscle
Turn a light on
In your blind spot
What's the time fox?
Thinking clearly
Stepping up and over

And baby, I don't wonder why
You feel I remind you of...
And baby, I don't wonder why
I hit the ground running every time

But, gee, I get rush
I get shivers inside when you call
Let it all unfold
Let it show, Fortune
You'll be a city girl
And saying goodbye to the sweet simple life that you knew
Ooh hoo, toodaloo
It's true
You're through
Through with the old world

Every month this shit gets awry
Know my body tells a story
Of the earth in all her pain and glory

Running towards it, maybe power-walkin'
How are you?
Caught the flu?
Well, I only know I want you to adore me

And baby, I don't wonder why
You feel I remind you of...
Maybe I don't wonder why
I hit the ground running every time

And going by the candlelight
And hoping I'll seal my...

Gee, I get out on the streets late and I walk
Let it hurl, unfurl on the world, go berserk
Get on your own turf

Someone will hand you a sweet proposition one day
And you'll say, say, 'G'day
How you doin' Fortune?'
You'll be a city girl soon.

Gee, I get rush
I get shivers inside when you call
Let it all unroll like a troll on you
Get in the bar and grill
Rubbin' them titties on edges of cities and worlds
Let the old control go home and groom,
You'll be a city girl soon.


7.Nobody Nowhere

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

Make up room for the night
We got no final line
What fuel for the light?
We'll see when the sun don't shine

Fearless, nothing can cease
Knowing my part
Fearless, nobody nowhere
Holding me down

Nobody now
Nobody now
Holding me down


8.Horsehead

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

You take logic off the shelf
Deep in my heart like nobody else
I'm dipping, now, in to forbidden lakes
I don't mind if you call me names

It will remain your recurring theme
The ragdoll who you dare not mend
Be poppin' up on in your broken dreams
It won't stop until the rainbows end
Until the horse has its head

So take logic off the shelf
Deep in my heart like nobody else
Love is a gun I cannot fight
A stronger hold than the hands of time

So don't hate if you don't wear it
Don't hate if you don't wear it
A horsehead in your doorway

For you can cull the beast, cull the beast
And you can shear the sheep, sheer the sheep
But if there comes a time when
When she opens up her doors
When she comes down upon man
She will show him no remorse

So take logic off the shelf
Deep in your heart and your vision of self
Your cold blood is wearing thin
Cold blood and the stain on me

Look at the dear in the headlight
Look at the dear in the headlight
You don't know it will be fine
Look at the dear in the headlight
But don't you be terrified
Of just a deer in the headlight


9.Austerlitz

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper




10.Deep Wide Ocean

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

What a simple want
To be free of god
A finger on your own creation

Queen told me to eat of kerosene
I must be real for the nation

Shortie, go by
Should you ever touch the sky
There's no need to cry 'deep wide ocean'
Any more now

You should know the score
Of my hidden war
I'm fighting on
But it's all about you

I follow in the space you travelled
Your trail of heart unravels
I pass the clearing you made
For when happiness was
Always

So carry the sign
Just a thimble in your eye
And if they should ask
How you knew me

Oh Shortie, you won
Something deeper has begun
There's no need to cry deep wide ocean

You're toeing a line
Something real or something divine
There's no need to choose
Can be both of them

To be right here, over there
Think and feel softest hair
You remind me of something yet to be lived
Oh, baby, I can't complain
For I love to watch you play
No, I could not contain it for my eyes

And a story
Of many graces you told me
And forever I will love you
For all time

Here I go yo,
Rockin' solo
I'll be around if you're low, though
Call me Anna, Poly-anna


11.Peace Of Mind

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

And though I never learned to play I won't forget
The secrets of the game are all but dead

The coin turns to reveal both its heads
There's still a deal
I won't forget

Now, I don't even want to build on the layers
There's no need to complicate a simple phrase

Hey there, baby, we'll be fine
I'll always want your peace of mind
I'll always look forward to better days ahead

Oh, hey there baby, we'll be fine
I'll always want your peace of mind
I'll always look forward to better days ahead


12.Reprise

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper




13.Catch Me

Writer(s):Hayley McGloneHeather ShannonSamuel LockwoodNikolas
Kaloper

Four to the floor
Was the answer
Me on my knees
Like a dancer
Heartbreaker, you match me

You see the minds on the air
Call him mister vain
Fever, catch me

Four to the floor
In the state of the art
Our feet come down in pattern

And do you feel the rage?
I'm so glad you came
Oh, feelings are natural

When you're flying low over cities of love
Over cities of dreams, yeah
When you're watching the waves in country towns

That are amazing
When you get in the vibe
When you're moving inside
When you know what I mean, yeah
When you getting the vibe
When you're moving inside

And, oh, let it go
What you know
What they say
Fall in love with the world over again
Eating alone and in tribes tastes amazing
Eating alone, watch it grow