Lyrics to
Born In A Prison

This version of Born In A Prison was released by John Lennon in 1972.

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We are born in a prision,
raised in a prision
Send to a prision called school,

We cry in a prision,
We love in a prision,
We live in a prision,
like fools.

Wood becomes a flut when
it’s loved,
reach for your self and your
battered mates.
Mirror becomes a razor when
it’s broken,
Look in a mirror and see
your shattered fate.

We live with no reason,
Kicked around for no reason,
Thrown out without reason
like tools.

Work in a prision
And hate in aprision
And die in a prision
as a rule.

We live in a prision
Among judges and wardnes
And wait for no reason or use
We laugh in a prision,
Go through all four seasons
And die with no vision
or truth

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About Lyrics and Born In A Prison by John Lennon

When you decide to study the lyrics to Born In A Prison, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by John Lennon. Some of the lyrics to Born In A Prison have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Lennon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Born In A Prison if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Born In A Prison" means the words set to the music of Born In A Prison, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Lennon. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Born In A Prison and the lyrics to Born In A Prison are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Lennon who came here looking just for the lyrics to Born In A Prison, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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