The Prisoner - Comus

I was mad and was accepted

For treatment at a hospital

For the mentally sick

I was wild and introvert

Wondering alone

In the night

I would scream and rage

Should someone

Disturb my peace

So they took me away

And they put me here alone

In my silent privacy

Then they gave me shock treatment

When I woke I was numb

And remembered nothing

Probe me mold me

Reassemble my brain, my brain

Schizoid paranoid

Just terms, just names, just names

Why can’t you leave me

Don’t drive me insane, insane

Your minds analyze me

Your eyes penetrate me

Illusion, confusion

I’m frightened, I’m helpless

Please leave me

I long to be free

I lie alone unable to remember

No face no names no eyes my brain just an ember

Kindle me protect my barren matter

Whose seeds may propagate yet still they shatter

They have emptied my head of its dreamin'

Like paper out of a waste bin

And I yearned to be free

Cold is the climate dark is the atomic night

Searching and hoping guarding my mind from your sight

Your evil eyes watch me your evil hands touch me they’re cold

I can stand prison but even my conscience you hold

Let me be

Set me free

Probe me mold me

Reassemble my brain, my brain

Schizoid paranoid

Just terms, just names, just names

Why can’t you leave me

Don’t drive me insane

Insane

Insane

Insane

Insane