"Prison" by New Model Army (B-Side to "Get Me Out")
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Transcribed by Juergen Bohn (nma@jjbohn.com)


[Intro] 
|: Em  Em | G  G :| (2x)

[Verse 1]
    Em                 Em
The curtain moves, the air swims,
    G                       G
The sweat dries cold on the shivering skin
    Em                    Em
The sheets they twist and turn again 
 G                G
 round and round

   Em                   Em
My mother she feeds and cares for me,
 G                   G
 Shackled to responsibility
 Em               Em
 All her precious dreams for me 
 G              G
 crashing down


[Chorus]
C                Bm
Tell them all to go away
C                  Bm
Tell them all I'll be OK
C                  Bm          
Tell them all it's just today, 
C                 C             Em
not today, please not today


[Verse 2]
        Em               Em
They're building special facilities,
   G               G
Laboratory animals die for me
  Em           Em
I live with my humility, 
    G      G
humility

  Em       Em
November 1989,
       G                     G
The're dancing on the Berlin Wall tonight
  Em               Em       
I feel the flow of history 
     G            G
 and have no part

[Chorus]
C                Bm
Tell them all to go away...


[Special]
  Em              G
A little night in town we said
   B          B
Oh I remember very well
     Em             G
They will be out of prison soon
    B             B                  Em
And me I'm locked forever in this...


|: Em  Em | G  G :| (2x)


[Verse 2]
  Em                      Em
I went for my mother to a holy shrine
    G                               G ...
The wheelchairs rattled through the afternoon
Over the cobbles and up the hill
In a desperate procession of will
It hurts just the way it hurts today
Those moments come then recede away
Better to accept what you cannot change
The less the pain

[Verse 2]
C                Bm
Tell them all to go away...

[Outro] 
|: Em  Em | G  G :| (...)

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Chords by Juergen Bohn, October 9 1999.
Juergen Bohn <nma@jjbohn.com>
http://listen.to/newmodelarmy