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The Prisoner Lyrics
On the run kill to eat
You're starving now you're dead on your feet
Going all the way nature's beast
Do what I want as I please
Run fight to breathe it's tough
Now you see me now you don't
Break the walls I'm coming out
Not a prisoner I'm a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was
I know where I'm going ... out
If you kill me it's self defence
If I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You'll be afraid when I call out your name
I'm not a number I'm a free man
I'll live my life how I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book
Cos I'll run rings round you
You're starving now you're dead on your feet
Going all the way nature's beast
Do what I want as I please
Now you see me now you don't
Break the walls I'm coming out
And my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was
I know where I'm going ... out
If I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You'll be afraid when I call out your name
I'll live my life how I want to
You'd better scratch me from your black book
Cos I'll run rings round you
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"A man who drives a 60's lotus sports car around London, resigns from a Top secret job. We next see him packing for a holiday at home, and a credit appears ... "The Prisoner". He is gassed, falls asleep and then wakes up in "The Village". Everyone in "The Village" is a number, and is there for security reasons (people to dangerous and who hold too much information to just let go). The series spends all it's time trying to get the "information" out of No.6 about why he resigned. Plus it spends quite a while chasing him with a weather balloon :-) A strange cult UK TV series."
Straight from the horses mouth it would seem, lol.
Basically its like what DaddyMack and Teufel said. Based on the bands fav show...Plus i saw a documentry about The Number of the Beast album, and Dickinson said "The Prisoner" was based on the TV series
"I read in an interview with Corey Taylor in Guitar World Magazine, that the Meaning of this song is about Alexander the Great"
That's bullshit. What does Slipknot know anyway?
Based on a real weird British TV series called "The Prisoner" that the band loves. While I don't know about the show, this song rocks! I love the opening quote from the show and the drum guitar. Then it continues on kicking ass with the vocals and lyrics.
its obviously from the show iron maiden kicks ass
Bruce doing the spoken intro to this song (from the TV show) during his Wacken 2002 gig is one of the funniest and worst things ever recorded on a live album.
The song is about self ownership, fight the good fight, and all that good shit.
A prisoner from some tipe of time(I guess 1920's) actually frees himself by escaping on his own freewill.
seems to be based on a series called "The Prisoner" its quite and old program, look out for it, its confusing
I read in an interview with Corey Taylor in Guitar World Magazine, that the Meaning of this song is about Alexander the Great
Obviouisly in the old days prisoners or slaves had names such as 4 or 5 or 6 or other numbers and they want to get free