Opening Remarks To Prisoners chords by
Jackie Leven

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Key: D major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Well, hello there, nice to see you.
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It's very nice to be here with you today.
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My friend Frank Ness
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called me up two weeks ago
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and said, Jackie, you know when you're in
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Bergen on Saturday?
So I said, yeah.
He said,
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do you want to spend your time
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in the hotel watch
ing television
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or would you like to go to prison?
So I said, I'll go to prison,
yeah, that would suit me.
So it's good to be here.
Before I go any further,
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I've got a message for Mr. Tur Cools,
if he's here.
I've got to dedicate a song to
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Tur Cools
if he's here.
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If he's not, then it doesn't matter.
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So, my name is Jackie Levin,
I'm from Scotland,
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I'm 52 years old,
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and when I     was younger,
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I was quite a violent guy,
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then I was into drugs for a long time.
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I'm not dangerous anymore,
just a big old Scotsman now.
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But I     spent some time
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in both English and Scottish  prisons
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and   I'm glad it's over
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but I don't regret it either
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and I  spent a long time
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taking a lot of drugs in England
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an d   one day I was making a record
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in the north of London
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and I was walking home late at night
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and I got a really serious kicking
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from some guys
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and I couldn't sing or speak for
two years
which really changed my life.
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I lost all my friends
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because I couldn't speak to anyone
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and people began to to talk to me
as if there
was something wrong with my head
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an d then there was
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something wrong with my head
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and so I took a lot of heroin
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an d had some real interesting times,
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but one day I decided
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I kind of wanted my life back
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and that was enough of that.
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So the way I did it was just to go and get some acupuncture,
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Chinese acupuncture
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and speak to a few good people.
And so I stopped being a heroin
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addict.
Then I made a center
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which is still running in London
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and it's called the Core Trust
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and we work with all kinds of addiction
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not just drugs, sex addiction,
anything that people
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may feel they're addicted to
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and   and that's still a
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kind of successful place
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running to this day.
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I don't have any religious
feelings
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about things like addiction and
violence.
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I'm not a Christian
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and in fact I think addiction can be a really
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really great mo ment in your life
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in which your life can change
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so    I think it can be a
positive thing.
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And my first song today
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is a song called Extremely Violent Man
from an album of mine
called Fairy Tales for Hard Men.

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