Alec Benjamin
Mind Is a Prison lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2019
- Genre
- Pop, Indie Pop
- Length
- 2:42
I don't live in California
I'll inform you that's not where I reside
I'm just a tenant
Payin' rent inside this body and I
Got two windows and those windows
Well, I call them my eyes
I'm just goin' where the wind blows
I don't get to decide
Sometimes I think too much
Yeah, I get so caught up
I'm always stuck in my head
I wish I could escape
I tried to yesterday
Took all the sheets of my bed
Then I tied up my linen with five strips of ribbon I found
Scaled the side of the buildin', I ran to the hills 'til they found me
And they put me back in my cell, all by myself
Alone with my thoughts again
Guess my mind is a prison, and I'm never gonna get out
So they tranquilized me analyzed me
Threw me back in my cage
Then they tied me to an IV
Told me I was insane
I'm a prisoner a visitor inside of my brain
And no matter what I do
They try to keep me in chains
Sometimes I think too much
Yeah, I get so caught up
I'm always stuck in my head
I wish I could escape
I tried to yesterday
Took all the sheets of my bed
Then I tied up my linen with five strips of ribbon I found
Scaled the side of the buildin', I ran to the hills 'til they found me
And they put me back in my cell, all by myself
Alone with my thoughts again
Guess my mind is a prison, and I'm never gonna get out
Said even if it's true
No matter what I do
I'm never gonna escape
I won't give up on hope
Secure another rope
And try for another day
Said even if it's true
No matter what I do
I'm never gonna escape
I won't give up on hope
Secure another rope
And try for another day
Then I tied up my linen with five strips of ribbon I found
Scaled the side of the buildin', I ran to the hills 'til they found me
And they put me back in my cell, all by myself
Alone with my thoughts again
Guess my mind is a prison, and I'm never gonna get out
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Key vocabulary
- keep
- continue having; holdA1
- true
- not falseA1
- try
- attemptA1
- what
- which thingA1
- don't
- do notA1
- live
- be alive
- put
- place somethingA1
- visitor
- person who comes to seeA1
- body
- physical personA1
- goin
- going
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About this song
Alec Benjamin is an American singer-songwriter known for earnest, mellow pop that blends folk-pop songwriting with electronic production. Born in Arizona, he rose to prominence with “Let Me Down Slowly” featuring Alessia Cara and later released These Two Windows in 2020 and “Demons” in 2020.