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Prisoner In This City
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A song about London in the future, or is it now?
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Acoustic folk rock, singer-songwriter
I've been singing since I was able to gurgle but only playing the guitar since I was 11, when my "father homeward came one day and gave to me a toy" (Thanks, Tom). That was about 50 years ago give or take a few months and I've been singing, playing and writing songs on and off, during all that time.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #227
Peak in subgenre #47
Author
Berk
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Maple Leaf Media Ltd
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August 27, 2016
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MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:05
Story behind the song
I wrote this song when I first moved to London in 1978. I was struck by the immense contrast between poverty and riches, fine buildings housing relics and crumbling tower-blocks housing people. I thought, "if it is this bad now, what will it be like in 100 years?" I used my Gibson J200 wide open and later a good friend added the Claptonesque slide solo in the bridge. Over 25 years later I'm sad to think that not a lot has changed on the streets of London (another great song!) when I see all the homeless people.
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