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I´m a prisoner 

Of words unsaid

Just lonely feelings

Locked away in my head

I trap myself further

Every time I stay quiet

I should start to speak

But I stop and stay silent

And now I´ve made

My own hard bed

Inside a prison of words unsaid

I am a P.O.W.

Not a prisoner of war

A prisoner of words

Like a soldier

I `m a fighter

Yet only a puppet

Mostly I only say

What you wanna hear

Could you take it if I came clear?

Or would you rather see me

Stoned on a drug of complacency and compromise

M.I.A.

I guess that`s what I am

Scraping this cold earth

For a piece of myself

For a piece in myself

It`d be easier if you put me in jail

If you locked me away

I`d have someone to blame

But these bars of steel are of my making

They surround my mind

And have me shaking

My hands are cuffed behind my back

I`m a prisoner of the worst kind, in fact

A prisoner of compromise

A prisoner of compassion

A prisoner of kindness

A prisoner of expectation

A prisoner of my youth

Run too fast to be old

I`ve forgotten what I was told

Ain`t I a sight to behold?

A prisoner of age dying to be young

To my head is my hand with a gun

And it`s cold and it`s hard

Cause there`s nowhere to run

When you`ve caged yourself

By holding your tongue

I`m a prisoner 

Of words unsaid

Just lonely feelings

Locked away in my head

It`s like solitary confinement

Every time I stay quiet

I should start to speak

But I stop and stay silent

And now I´ve made

My own hard bed

Inside a prison of words unsaid

Alicia Keys/ Bobby Thejus