Good morning to you, I hope you're feeling better baby
Thinking of me while you are far away
Counting the days until they set you free again
Writing this letter, hoping you're okay
Sent to the room you used to stay in every Sunday
The one that is warmed by sunshine everyday
And we'll get to know each other for a second time
And then you can tell me about your prison stay

Feels so good you're coming home soon

Its gonna be good to have you back again with me
Watching the laughter play around your eyes
Come up and fetch you, saved up for the train fare money
Kiss and make-up and it will be so nice

Feels so good you're coming home soon

Walking the way we used to walk
And it could be so nice
We're talking the way we used to talk
And it could be so nice

Its gonna be nice to have you back again with me
Watching the laughter play around your eyes
Come up and fetch you, saved up for the train fare money
Kiss and make-up and it will be so nice

Feels so good you're coming home soon

(Ah ah ah ah ah ah)
(Ah ah ah ah ah ah)

Feels so good you're coming home soon

(Ah ah ah)
(Ah ah ah ah)


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  • +5
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    Dude is psyched his jailbird honey's coming home.

    doubleohspoolon February 14, 2005   Link
  • +2
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    I am intrigued by hoitsmith's take on this. I do have one ciomment, though. I believe an earlier "working" title for the song was Care of Cell 69 (from Odessey & Oracle liner notes)....and NO I didn't make this up...lol

    Regardless, after having heard a few of these songs over the years I finally went and got the CD and WOW is about al I can say. O&O is a true hidden treasure. I can't believe how fresh this music sounds today!

    akronzipfanon February 25, 2008   Link
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    I actually think that the singer is the man in jail, reading a letter from his girl.

    "Care of" is a postage thing. C/O, Care Of. I used to work in a mail room. If you were addressing it, you would write the name of the prison, then "C/O Cell 44." Care Of Cell 44.

    This song always makes me think of the movie "Con Air" with Nicholas Cage; in the movie he was imprisoned for killing two men that were attempting to rape his pregnant wife. So the woman is writing to the man, counting the days until they set him free again.

    Breedabieon April 11, 2008   Link
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    Haha, I don't think I could have put the meaning of the song in better words than doubleohspool did.

    It's about a guy who is estastic that his love is coming back from a stay in jail.

    Anyway, about the band. The Zombies, I feel, are one of the most underrated bands of the '60s.

    Colin Blunstone's vocals are stunning. I mean, he could be in a boy's choir. And suprisingly those same vocals fit perfectly in a "rock 'n roll" band. The combination is beautiful.

    greensleeveson April 10, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    best chorus ever

    blakeeon May 27, 2007   Link
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    Hoitsmith, you totally explained this song to me! That's really exciting to me, I'm serious. And it makes sense, since they have other literary references in their work. (Rose for Emily being a particularly obvious one.) The song's become a lot sweeter to me now.

    BlueSidheon June 25, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    glad i could have helped!

    hoitsmithon December 16, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    One of my favourite things about the song is the ambiguity of the gender roles. It could be anybody in that cell, and the Zombies totally leave it open to fit whatever jailbird occasion one might have.

    Havenspearon May 15, 2008   Link
  • 0
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    I'm not sure if it's relevant, but in A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, Alex stays in Cell 44 after killing a woman.

    The song seems to have nothing to do with the book, though.

    pandanessson August 09, 2008   Link
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    if it was jail, why would the narrator ask if he/she were feeling better ?

    couldn't the "about your prison stay" line be just gently kidding ?

    TheNipperon December 11, 2009   Link

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