The Prisoner

I was mad and was accepted for treatment

At a hospital for the mentally sick

(So I am told)

I was wild and introvert

Wandering alone in the night

(So I was, so I am told)

I would scream and rage

Should someone disturb my eye peace

(So I did, so I must hide)

So they took me away and they put me here

Alone in my silent privacy

Then they gave me shock treatment

And when I awoke I was numb

And remembering nothing

Probe me, mould me

Reassemble my brain, my brain

Schizoid, paranoid

Just terms, just names, just names

Why can't you leave me?

Don't drive me insane, insane

Your minds analyse me

Your eyes penetrate me

Illusions, confusions

I'm frightened, I'm helpless

Please leave me, I long to be free

Oh, let me free!

I lie alone unable to remember

No face, no name, no eyes, my brain just an ember

Kindle me, protect my barren matter

Whose seeds may propagate yet still may shatter

They have emptied my head of its dreaming

Like paper out of a waste bin

And I yearn to be, yearn to be, yearn to be, yearn to be free

Cold is the climate, dark is the atomic night

Searching and hoping, guarding my mind from your sight

Your evil eyes watch me, your evil hands touch me, they're cold

I can stand prison, but even my conscious you hold

Let me be

Set me free

Yeah!

Ohh...

Probe me, mould me

Reassemble my brain, my brain

Schizoid, paranoid

Just terms, just names, just names

Why can't you leave me?

Don't drive me insane, insane, insane, insane...