The Prison - Melissa Etheridge

I was high and dry

Like the Kansas sky

If I ached for any more

I knew I’d surely die

Night after night

Trying to get out of my skin

Day after lonely day

You’d send me back again

I have stood inside this prison

I have touched its stony walls

I know before you try to run

You gotta learn to crawl

I tried to leave it all behind me

I drove all night

Just to drive all day

But the walls of this prison

Still surround me

And I can’t break away

I held you so close

I thought my soul would break

But you were just a ghost

The holiest mistake

I will not be a judge

Or the one to set you free

I’ll just keep on drivin'

And time’s a friend to me

I have stood inside this prison

I have touched its stony walls

I know before you try to run

You gotta learn to crawl

I tried to leave it all behind me

I drove all night

I drove all day

But the walls of this prison

Still surround me

And I can’t break away

The sentence has been read

Everything is done

I wish I could say goodbye to you

Wish I could hold the sun

My eyes are dull and burnt

And they lie to me sometimes

Cause I thought I saw you cryin'

I have stood inside this prison

I have touched its stony walls

I know before you try to run

You gotta learn to crawl

Oh… I tried to leave it all behind me

In my dreams somehow I got away

But the walls of this prison

Still surround me

And I can’t break away