Inmates [Album Version]
[00:14.15] When you said you loved me, did you really love me?
[00:21.78] Or did the words just spill out
[00:26.02] Like drool on my pillow.
[00:29.98] 'Cause I was naked
[00:34.22] When you said those words,
[00:38.18] But I felt covered in your whispered worship.
[00:46.09] And as you passed out fast on my shoulder,
[00:54.29] I imagined a child
[00:58.52] Waiting so sad and still for his mom to arrive.
[01:05.87] Did she leave you an orphan,
[01:09.83] In that big, brown leather chair?
[01:13.79] Said, "Don't you move a muscle, kid,
[01:17.75] I'll be back in twenty years,"
[01:21.42] You were scared, you were lonely,
[01:25.38] But you must've been aware;
[01:29.90] Life is a series of calluses,
[01:33.30] This is just another layer.
[01:37.25] So, build 'em up, tough it out,
[01:41.21] Yeah, that's your skin;
[01:43.19] Don't let anyone under there.
[01:46.58] --
[01:59.58] When you said you needed me,
[02:03.53] Did you really need me?
[02:07.77] Or was I just someone?
[02:11.45] Oh, you'd take anything.
[02:15.41] Am I first on that list of yours,
[02:19.65] Or am I second, or third?
[02:23.32] So, who's that ahead of me,
[02:26.99] Some harlot from Pittsburgh?
[02:31.51] Or Detroit, Santa Fe, or San Diego?
[02:39.43] I know you're so alone,
[02:43.67] But how much affection does one guy really need?
[02:51.01] Did you date a lot in high school?
[02:55.25] Were you always chasing girls?
[02:59.49] Couldn't you find some young valentine
[03:03.17] To steal your heart for good?
[03:06.56] Were you content, or contemptible?
[03:10.52] Are your memories pleasant,
[03:15.04] Or is it a string of endless flings and bitter resentment.
[03:22.39] Seems that what you want and what you need
[03:26.35] Doesn't mean a thing, we're just here for the taking.
[03:30.87] --
[03:45.00] When you said you'd hurt me,
[03:48.68] Did you think you hurt me?
[03:52.63] Are you really that cocky?
[03:56.59] Yeah, what a heartbreaker!
[04:00.55] Well, I've got my armor
[04:04.50] Yeah, I've been through some battles before.
[04:08.46] And I met your old girlfriend,
[04:12.14] She said, "Baby, don't bother."
[04:16.95] She told me you told her you'd hurt her
[04:25.43] Funny, how familiar.
[04:29.10] So, how much of this relationship was rehearsed?
[04:36.45] Did you act out as a child?
[04:40.41] Were you always crying wolf?
[04:44.65] Attention-starved, you tried too hard
[04:48.33] Just to get someone to look.
[04:52.00] Now you're the wolf in second-hand clothing.
[04:55.96] I'm the sheep in a pleated skirt.
[04:59.92] It's an awkward form of payback,
[05:03.59] But if it works for you, it works.
[05:07.55] It's that I recognize your off-white lies,
[05:11.79] Still, I lie beside you
[05:14.05] And that's what really hurts.
[05:16.31] --
[05:30.15] When you said you'd leave me
[05:34.11] Well, why haven't you left me?
[05:38.35] What are we still doing here,
[05:42.03] So desperate for company?
[05:45.70] There's a greyhound on Jackson Street,
[05:49.66] There's an airport in Council Bluffs.
[05:53.62] Hell, there's a car in the driveway.
[05:57.58] Fifty ways to get lost.
[06:02.38] But as I hold you and listen to you sleeping,
[06:10.29] I'm starting to wonder if I really believe
[06:15.95] That you'd ever really leave.
[06:21.88] Would you leave me, an orphan,
[06:25.56] In that big, brown leather chair?
[06:29.79] The one you've lugged around from town to town for all these years.
[06:37.14] It's a trophy of your childhood,
[06:41.10] Like a shark's tooth or gator skin boots
[06:45.05] But this one holds you prisoner
[06:49.01] It holds me prisoner too.
[06:52.97] What we need to set us free
[06:56.36] Is to let go of each other - let go of everything.
[07:00.88] --
[07:15.01] When I said I loved you,
[07:18.68] It was because I loved you.
[07:22.64] When I said I needed you,
[07:26.88] Well, I really need you.
[07:30.55] Yeah, I guess you hurt me,
[07:34.79] For once you're a man of your word.
[07:38.75] Well, guess what, I'm leaving.
[07:41.85] I can't be your prisoner.
[07:46.09] I can't be your prisoner, oh no.
[07:53.72] I can't be your prisoner, oh no.
[08:01.92] I can't be your prisoner, oh no.
[08:09.83] I can't be your prisoner, oh no.
[08:17.47] I can't be your prisoner, oh no. (I can't do it, I won't do it)
[08:25.38] I can't be your prisoner, oh no. (I can't do it, I won't do it)
[08:33.01] I can't be your prisoner, oh no.
[08:40.36] I can't be your prisoner, oh no.
[08:48.27] I can't be your prisoner, oh no. (I can't do it, I won't do it)
[08:55.90] I can't be your prisoner, oh no. (I can't do it, I won't do it)
[09:03.53] I can't be your prisoner, oh no.
[09:10.88] I can't be your prisoner.
