Lyrics for Care Of Cell 44 as interpreted by xJoeBoothx

Care Of Cell 44 Lyrics
Good morning to you I hope you're feeling better baby
Thinking of me while you are far away
Counting the days until they set you free again
Writing this letter hoping you're okay

Saved you the room you used to stay in every Sunday
The one that is warmed by sunshine every day
And we'll get to know each other for a second time
And then you can tell me 'bout your prison stay...

Feels so good...
You're coming home soon!

It's gonna to be good to have you back again with me
Watching the laughter play around your eyes
Come up and fetch you, saved up for the train fare money
Kiss and make up and it will be so nice...

Feels so good...
You're coming home soon!

Walking the way we used to walk
And it could be so nice...
We're talking the way we used to talk
And it could be so nice...

It's gonna be good to have you back again with me
Watching the laughter play around your eyes
Come up and fetch you, saved up for the train fare money
Kiss and make up and it will be so nice...

Feels so good...
You're coming home soon!
Feels so good...
You're coming home soon!

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doubleohspool
02-14-2005

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Dude is psyched his jailbird honey's coming home.

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greensleeves
04-10-2005

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Haha, I don't think I could have put the meaning of the song in better words than doubleohspool did.

It's about a guy who is estastic that his love is coming back from a stay in jail.

Anyway, about the band. The Zombies, I feel, are one of the most underrated bands of the '60s.

Colin Blunstone's vocals are stunning. I mean, he could be in a boy's choir. And suprisingly those same vocals fit perfectly in a "rock 'n roll" band. The combination is beautiful.

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BlueSidhe
03-05-2007

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I honestly think she's in a mental institution, not a literal prison.

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hoitsmith
04-10-2007

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this isnt actually about a prison, the "prison" represents the restraints placed upon their relationship by a dissaproving mother/father, and now theyve got out of the way, (death? moved home?) also, cell 44 was the room mentioned in an edgar allan poe story where a mad mother kept her daughter hidden away from boys

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blakee
05-27-2007

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best chorus ever

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BlueSidhe
06-25-2007

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Hoitsmith, you totally explained this song to me! That's really exciting to me, I'm serious. And it makes sense, since they have other literary references in their work. (Rose for Emily being a particularly obvious one.) The song's become a lot sweeter to me now.

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hoitsmith
12-15-2007

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glad i could have helped!

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akronzipfan
02-25-2008

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I am intrigued by hoitsmith's take on this. I do have one ciomment, though. I believe an earlier "working" title for the song was Care of Cell 69 (from Odessey & Oracle liner notes)....and NO I didn't make this up...lol

Regardless, after having heard a few of these songs over the years I finally went and got the CD and WOW is about al I can say. O&O is a true hidden treasure. I can't believe how fresh this music sounds today!

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Breedabie
04-11-2008

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I actually think that the singer is the man in jail, reading a letter from his girl.

"Care of" is a postage thing. C/O, Care Of. I used to work in a mail room. If you were addressing it, you would write the name of the prison, then "C/O Cell 44." Care Of Cell 44.

This song always makes me think of the movie "Con Air" with Nicholas Cage; in the movie he was imprisoned for killing two men that were attempting to rape his pregnant wife.
So the woman is writing to the man, counting the days until they set him free again.

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Havenspear
05-15-2008

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One of my favourite things about the song is the ambiguity of the gender roles. It could be anybody in that cell, and the Zombies totally leave it open to fit whatever jailbird occasion one might have.

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pandanesss
08-09-2008

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I'm not sure if it's relevant, but in A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, Alex stays in Cell 44 after killing a woman.

The song seems to have nothing to do with the book, though.

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TheNipper
12-11-2009

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if it was jail, why would the narrator ask if he/she were feeling better ?

couldn't the "about your prison stay" line be just gently kidding ?

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