The Prisoner (2026) Kill or Cure 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Push yourself to nothing
Blinkered tunnel vision, can you see the light?
Keep up with the Joneses
A slave to your salary, til day turns night

Get that next promotion
Crawling up the ladder feeling no emotion
Have you measured up?
Afraid to? Made to? Who said paid to?

Are you ever happy, ever felt fulfilled
Measuring accomplishments in dollar bills
Feeling blank, motive lost
A surreptitious creeping cost

Work is your master, racing faster, feel that you lost control of life?
That's never right
Bound to the chair, and the screen, have you ever questioned what that means
It's just obscene

“I had a dream”
That's one more dream than you've ever seen
What did you achieve?
An extra day a decade on your annual leave

What have you created?
A paper-work mountain rubber stamped and dated
Write your final legacy...
Reflection in the mirror was your enemy

Are you ever happy, ever felt fulfilled?
Measuring accomplishments in dollar bills
Feeling blank, motive lost
A surreptitious choking cost

Work is your master, racing faster, feel that you lost control of life?
That's never right
Boundto the chair, and the screen, have you ever questioned what that means?
It's just obscene

Time to take this test
If the only world you know ends at the edge of your desk

Are you ever happy, ever felt fulfilled?
Measured your accomplishments in dollar bills
Feeling blank, motive lost
A surreptitious deathly cost

When you come a'knocking on the Pearly Gates
Too late for a second chance to change your fate
Who's to blame , for what went wrong?
What kept you blinded all life long

Work was your master, racing faster, feel that you lost control of life?
That's never right
Bound to the chair, and the screen, why d'you never question what that means?
It's just obscene

Broken and distorted just a psyche that’s aborted
My virtue is corroded with the fragments of my deeds
Twisted, overbearing with a mind that's void of caring
All contact is deceiving, a lie that isn't me

Just an imitator - fraud of mind as I invent
I am my creator - character of my decent
Living emulation - walk a mirror to exist
Life's a simulation - instincts I've learned to resist

Who am I now? / Which part of me?
Who am I now? / Who do you see?
Walk alone, act a drone, the real me is still unknown
'Cause the answer's in my eyes, who do you see?

All days are a motion, I converse without emotion
Every action lacks devotion, I'm just a void inside
My childhood is my master, pulling wings from my disaster
My pulse starts racing faster, behind my hidden mask

All is gone, begun shut down
This distant ward of wounded soldiers
One mistake and left to drown
The only one, who knew the answers

Life - the last unknown, dead waste
Wait - all systems fail
While you observe it's my life
Life - the last unknown, dead waste
Wait, all systems fail
While you observe I'm

Trapped inside a cage, a mind that's full of rage
(My) family wait, and I can hear them
Better dead this way, leave my shell today
Turn the switch, start the ascending

Sands of time are running out
The truth I hold needs liberation
Trace my steps and leave no doubt
My legacy will be forsaken.

We were young we were off for war
Marching on marsh lands
The killing fields near 100 days since birth at Amien

We were but few lost at the campaign
Reckless absent mind
We were out gunned by Marne-Rheims' keen hand around our necks we yield

Evoke the sentiments of hope, Life which I have wasted
The stirring memories of home seem attenuated

The road ahead leads to prison walls
Shackled and despair
The mud and rain has spread disease as rats await their prey

Starving me, beating me, leave me to die
I'm just a soldier
Torture me, break me, how long since Versailles?
I don't remember.

Rage, lives through your mind
The shadow you fear is me
Wake once and for all, see what you'll be.

Watch, you sleep,
A fear we never seek
Close your eyes and see we are what remains

Reflected, resurrected, closed from all minds
Between two worlds, we are the remnant

Breath once betray, shades of the day (neverending day)
Shadows, Nightmares
Into the night's embrace
We rise, one voice
Where there is no release.

Call, shadows of the past
We see through the masks
Loveless departed stay bridging the gap
Bury all your shame
Specters burn in flame
Weeping resentment, we bring anarchy

Through your eyes
Observing separate lives
No interaction confined into Glass
Deceptive, receptive
Your senses purge
Walk through your world
We are the remnant

Breath once betray
Shades of the day
Never ending day

Shadows, Nightmares
Into the nights embrace
We Rise, one voice
Where There is no release

Are you conscious? Do you know I'm there?
Do you even recognise the world that's outside your lair?
You're glued to the PC. And forever online
Your sentence self-imposed and measured in game time

Endless progression inside of your small world
Focused on winning, become the elite
Full time addiction to social seclusion
Your isolation complete

Soul cold
And all alone
Tied to your to technology
Rewired your biology
Now .... it will take you down

Hooked to your heartbeat. Adrenaline flows.
Pixelated paradise, dependency grows
Total domination. Craving fulfilled?
Sucked into the cycle, you're so weak willed )

You only have one life, you're never respawning
Open the door and step over the ledge
Turn off devices explore with your own eyes
A picture without a screen edge

Soul cold
And all alone
Lost in the ether
Your world in your hands
In your space
No self control
A solitary ruler
On a digital throne

I feel so incomplete
When I'm disconnected, away from my world
Never needed anything external
Don't think you've understood
Makes me feel like a king eternal
Godlike it tastes so good

So alone
Cut off your family
The console commands you now

Soul cold
And all alone
Lost in the ether
Your world in your hands
In your space
No self control
A solitary ruler
On a digital throne

If I'd have known, what I know now we never would have started on this path
Twenty years in a living hell, each hour thinking over
One-by-one, count the days, a life enslaved, why do I remain here?

Our lives, entwined, will break our sanity of mind
Divide, rewind, we sow the seeds of our demise

Bound, shattered and mistreated by you, suffocated
Downwards we go, a hurricane that tears us both apart

I let my feelings wither, now there's nothing left, a barren empty home
Feeding off your vitriolic anger, like a cancer in my bones

But I never planned to be your prisoner forevermore
I can't escape, our vows aggrieve me, the power keeps me

Our lives, entwined, will break our sanity of mind
Divide, rewind, we sow the seeds of our demise

Bound, shattered and mistreated by you, suffocated
Downwards we go, a hurricane that tears us both apart

Broken down a piece of your empire, fallen short of context
And all I want, is to break the cycle, start our lives again
Separate your mind from emotion, pacify your instincts
Did you ever dream this would happen? Is this all we live for?
All I want, is to find an answer, find my freedom
All I want, so to break the cycle, start our lives again

Our lives, entwined, will break our sanity of mind
Divide, rewind, we sow the seeds of our demise

Bound, shattered and mistreated by you, suffocated
Downwards we go, a hurricane that tears us both apart
Bound, shattered and mistreated by you, suffocated
Downwards we go, a hurricane that tears us both apart

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Down, another precious hour leaves so confused
Dead, inside I'm am sick of living, wanna just crawl out
How many bodies, how many lives?
How much innocence is lost and won't survive
I feel hysteria, I feel your pain,
I am the dying mark of Cane

This is my design
This is my intent
I will tear the walls
From all that would prevent

This is my design
This is who I see
I am not a slave
To anyone but me

Fall, I'm not a victim I am lost without a soul
Sin, I know the damage caused is mirrored on my skin
What does it take? What is the cost?
What is the reason I fragment when feeling lost
I'm not your icon, I'm not your guide
I am two minds inside and live in a divide

This is my design
This is my intent
I will tear the walls
From all that would prevent

This is my design
This is who I see
I am not a slave
To anyone but me

Bound to the dark
Slave to my need
Broken by vengeance, blood and greed

I am the life-force that has come and gone,
I am both Jekyll & Hyde
The body count is my inner song
In which the reaper confides
A ceaseless appetite that I constrain
How could you understand
I am hysteria, I am your pain
I am the dying mark of Cane

This is my design
This is my intent
I will tear the walls
From all that would prevent

This is my design
This is who I see
I am not a slave
To anyone but me

We were young we were off for war
Marching on marsh lands
The killing fields near 100 days since birth at Amien

We were but few lost at the campaign
Reckless absent mind
We were out gunned by Marne-Rheims' keen hand around our necks we yield

Evoke the sentiments of hope, Life which I have wasted
The stirring memories of home seem attenuated

The road ahead leads to prison walls
Shackled and despair
The mud and rain has spread disease as rats await their prey

Starving me, beating me, leave me to die
I'm just a soldier
Torture me, break me, how long since Versailles?
I don't remember.

All is gone, begun shut down
This distant ward of wounded soldiers
One mistake and left to drown
The only one, who knew the answers

Life - the last unknown, dead waste
Wait - all systems fail
While you observe it's my life
Life - the last unknown, dead waste
Wait, all systems fail
While you observe I'm

Trapped inside a cage, a mind that's full of rage
(My) family wait, and I can hear them
Better dead this way, leave my shell today
Turn the switch, start the ascending

Sands of time are running out
The truth I hold needs liberation
Trace my steps and leave no doubt
My legacy will be forsaken.