Chapter 3 // March 2013 // Prisoner of Your Mind // We
Joel Ackerson – vocals, guitars and accordion //
Eric Andersen – vocals and piano //
Megan Slankard – vocals and guitars //
Zack Teran – vocals and bass
“Prisoner of Your Mind” and “We”
Produced by The Novelists // Engineered by Joel Ackerson at True Story Records // Additional Engineering by Eric Andersen, Megan Slankard, and Zack Teran at True Story Records // Mixed by David Peters // Piano for “Prisoner of Your Mind” and “We” was engineered by Tom Gordon at Imirage Sound Lab // Drums and bass for “Prisoner of Your Mind” were engineered by Michael Cross at Ex’pression College For Digital Arts
Guest Musician on “Prisoner of Your Mind”
– Justin Kruger – drums
Guest Musicians on “We”
– Justin Kruger – drums
– Paran Amirinazari – violin
– Jenna Bauer – violin
– Dustin Budish – viola
– Charles Taggart – cello
String arrangement for “We” by Zack Teran // Thanks to Dean Rossi for letting us use his microphones for recording the strings on “We.”
“Prisoner of Your Mind” ©℗ 2013 Eric Andersen
“We” ©℗ 2013 Eric Andersen and Joel Ackerson
LYRICS
PRISONER OF YOUR MIND (Andersen)
You knew someday the day would come
But someday’s here, and you’re on the run
You long for liberation, but you hide
And somewhere deep within your soul
Your faith is strong, and the truth you know
Love won’t let you run away, still you hide
And everything that ever was is meaningless
It could have been so easy, after all, you never asked for this
It wasn’t your fault, but it’s time
It wasn’t your call, but you’ll be fine
You didn’t do wrong but still you’re trapped in this, a prisoner of your mind
Surrender to what’s calling you, embrace it, it’s your life
It wasn’t your fault
You’re in, you’re out, you’re day by day
For better of worse, through it all you pray
Just to be yourself and to feel alive
A ways you’ve come on a path that’s new
With the hardest thing still left to do
You’ve long since made the choice, but now’s your time
And suddenly all the things you thought you knew you know not now
You’re pretty sure you’ll make it through this life but you don’t know how
Racing through your mind you wonder how you got here
How’d you get so far from home
It wasn’t your fault, but it’s time
It wasn’t your call, but you’ll be fine
You didn’t do wrong, but still you’re trapped in this, a prisoner of your mind
Surrender to what’s calling you, quit living in this lie
Cause the only thing you know is in your heart (It wasn’t your fault)
It wasn’t my fault, but it’s time
It wasn’t my call, but I’ll be fine
WE (Andersen/Ackerson)
Dust lines on a wall, a picture in a frame
Frozen there the day we shared a name
A quiet empty shelf, records in a row
The mood was never far from what we chose
Kill the lights and close the door
Turn the latch and leave the key
We don’t live here anymore
No, it’s back to “you and I”
There is no such thing as “we”
Scuff marks on a floor, a mattress in a frame
Where the best and worse of both of us lay
Sunlight pouring in, the curtains torn and gone
Like shadows do, the memories move on
Kill the lights and close the door
Turn the latch and leave the key
We don’t live here anymore
No, it’s back to “you and I”
There is no such thing as “we”
(Instrumental verse)
Kill the lights and close the door
Turn the latch and leave the key
We don’t live here anymore
We don’t live here anymore
No, it’s back to “you and I”
There is no such thing as “we”