Walker Lyrics - Prisoner Of The Mind
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PRISONER OF THE MIND
Copyright 1998 Michael E. Walker
Revised 02/2000

Verse 1

You can only live it, one moment at a time.
If you can keep yourself in it,
you might glimpse the grand design.
I know being here, at times it can be hard.
Sensing time boiling away.
If you’d have drawn a higher card
maybe things wouldn’t be this way.
Prisoner of the mind.

Verse 2

Sliver of sunlight, might just cut your eyes.
At the end of a cold night,
you may come to realize.
There is no meaning, except the one that you assign.
We all need weaning from the habits of the mind.
Crate or castle, which one you must decide.
Prisoner of the mind.

Bridge

So what’s it all about?
It makes you want to shout,
‘cause if it’s all in the way that I see it,
then heaven’s a heartbeat away.
A better way…

Verse 3

I hear you talking without lips that can describe
I’m chained to the limits of the words I hear inside.
…keep crashing into the limits of my mind.
A hostage of the language, or the part I can define.
Without change
like a window to a fly
What you believe, you know you’re right. (you know you’re right, you know
you’re right)
In this world of my creating
lies a cage where I reside.
Prisoner of the mind.