Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 lyrics

Crime - a first degree crime

A ruthless man, to jail to be damned

Life sentence of time

Sin - accused of a sin

Broken commandments erotic forces within

Time lingers it melts away

Eyes closed can't face destiny

Vital sentence and life torn away

Between the bars, awaiting my day

Bars - these endless bars

The twelve foot fence, the silver spiral of death

Light - no sign of light

A concrete wall, a chair of death down the hall

Time lingers it melts away

Eyes closed can't face destiny

Vital sentence and life torn away

Between the bars, awaiting my day

Life inside is so unwhole

Among thousands I stand alone

Soon freedom will come my way

At any cost I will escape

Life inside is so unwhole

Among thousands I stand alone

Soon freedom will come my way

Between the bars, awaiting my day

Diminishing days

Nocturnal darkness to shade my escape

Razor ribbon awaits

Pain - my tormenting pain

Revenge will be mine, but all in good time

Your lives I will claim

Free at last now free

But there on the way, aware my escape

Time lingers it melts away

Eyes closed can't face destiny

Vital sentence and life torn away

Between the bars, awaiting my day

Life inside is so unwhole

Among thousands I stand alone

Soon freedom will come my way

At any cost I will escape

Life inside is so unwhole

Among thousands I stand alone

Soon freedom will come my way

Between the bars, awaiting my day