PRISONS

PRISONS

In our lives we all build prisons

To entangle us and snare

The house

The job

The wedding band

Kids for which we have to care

Then life puts up some new ones

Tells us to stay right there

The house

Becomes

Our total world

Because of a health scare

The life we know is changing

There’s nowhere else to be

The house

The lawn

The family

A spring trap you can’t flee

Although you know you can’t escape

That place that you call home

Your life

Your home

Your family

At least you’re not alone

Those prisons we make ourselves

Now shut into by the state

Have life

And hope

And family

Let’s try to enjoy our fate

Real prisons are far worse you know

Few outside will feel so trapped

You’re free

To be

With those you love

In a velvet castle you mapped

In our lives we all build prisons

To make something we can share

Your home

Your folks

Are your cellmates

You need to be right there

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