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Artist: Dokken
Canonical path: /dokken/prisoner
Related lyric paths: 6
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Prisoner
Read Prisoner lyrics by Dokken on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Prisoner
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It wasn't just your innocence
No It wasn't temptation
It was just your own way
Of placing the blame on me
Stop thinking that it's all in vain
You keep trading your love for pain
Someday an answer will come
'Cause there ain't no way to escape
Baby I'm a prisoner Oh
Chained by love
It's so easy to see
I could never be free
I'm a prisoner
Chained by love
Chained by love
The answer for your loneliness
Was only frustration
So you gave it all away
By placing the blame on me
Remember how it used to be
Your lies won't die that easily
Something's wrong
Why can't you see
There ain't no way to escape
Baby I'm a prisoner Oh
Chained by love
It's so easy to see
I could never be free
I'm a prisoner
Chained by love
Chained by love
It's so easy to see
I could never be free
I'm a prisoner
Chained by love - Hold my heart in misery
Cause I'm a prisioner
Did my time
So let me be
Let me go
You owe it to me---
Someday an answer will come your way
Something's wrong Why can't you see
That there ain't no way to escape
Escape
Baby I'm a prisoner
Oh Chained by love
It's so easy to see
I could never be free
I'm a prisoner
Chained by love
Chained by love
It's so easy to see
I could never be free
I'm a prisoner
Chained by love
Chained by love
It's so easy to see
I could never be free
I'm a prisoner
Chained by love
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