With a Bible, a mattress
There was only one solution
You can't cage my spirit in
But for Christ's sake let him keep his name
Can I make it through these fourteen years?
My family run out of its home
Five simple things denied
Still I left a girl outside pregnant
Death will lead to compromise
But they can't stop the desire
So they stripped us to the bone
I can no longer see your face
Now I got a son and a pain in my heart
To finally break her heart
My bones break through my skin
But they can't stop the desire
When your heart is on fire
Five simple things we ask of them
I don't blame her for the separation
I had the love of my comrades
Married her while on remand
To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh
Will my son remember my face?
Divided by religion I grew up fast
When your heart is on fire
But they couldn't break me because
I pray to God that my
But Thatcher, will not compromise
But they can't stop the desire
We wouldn't wear their convict clothes
Threw in some threadbare blankets
In a trial without a jury
I ask my Mother's permission
Stuck in an eight foot concrete box
I got lifted for carryin' a gun
When he doesn't recognize his old man
And the threat of violence everyday
We have come to a decision, hunger strike
To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh
Three comrades starve behind me
And a burnin' faith in my cause
I got fourteen years from the judge
Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh
But they can't stop the desire
Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh
We wouldn't come out of their prison cells
We smeared shit on their prison walls
Screws beat me regularly
When your heart is on fire
To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh
As we slopped out down the halls
Turn the whole system upside down
To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm goin' back to Belfast City
But the system had other ideas
Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh
Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh
I was stabbed and I was spat upon
And when they jeered us about our nakedness
