Prisoner - Jordan Bratton, Chance The Rapper

Just because it glows, that doesn’t mean everything’s on show

No riches don’t make a happy home

No riches don’t compensate for soul

Diamond just a stone

She gives everything to something that don’t mean anything

But that’s all she knows

She’ll never go back the way she came, came

Now is this just a prisoner without a cage?

Not a life she chose but she followed the gold code it wrote

What she wanted, it couldn’t be sold

She started to lose her way

You didn’t take communion after the sermon

You don’t believe there’s a God above you

With His plan for you

So you sniff it and drink and changin' who you are

Things that make you feel alive, somethin' wrong with that

But I feel for you

Now is this just a prisoner without a cage?

So trapped in this life, you better make it out alive

You better give it another try or you won’t make it out alive

Cage bird singin' on tour

Just an amateur tryna mature

Grew so fast that she never grew up

Got to move somewhere new just cause its newer

Everyday it rain where she live, she say you lettin' all the air out

TVs are for windows where she stare out

Extra hours at parties

Tryna find some jacket she don’t even care about

She ain’t even wear it out

Building nests on arms, Breast so warm

You think of mother’s bosom

She’s so green you’d flip but probly shouldn’t

I hope she catch her tail and her circles get smaller

Before the drill ain’t a drill and the wolf is for real

And the wolf is for real

Now is this just a prisoner without a cage?

So trapped in this life, you better make it out alive

You better give it another try or you won’t make it out alive

Now silent and slowly

After a while she’s lonely

She waits to die

A livin' waste of time

All this green, no blue skies

All sunny days are cold as ice

The frozen sun she’s trapped inside

Is it just, is it just a prisoner without a cage?