Cat Power - ye auld triangle

노래는 감옥에서의 고통과 외로움을 느끼는 주인공의 심정을 담고 있다
그는 반로에서 옛 사랑과 감정을 그리워하며, 감옥 생활의 지루함과 슬픔을 노래한다
"Royal Canal"이라는 장소가 이러한 감정의 배경으로 설정되어 있다

A hungry feeling came o'er me stealing
And the mice they were squealing in my prison cell
And that auld triangle went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Oh to start the morning, the warden bawling
'Get up out of bed, you, and clean out your cell'
And that auld triangle went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Oh the screw was peeping and the lag was sleeping
As he lay weeping for his girl Sal
And that auld triangle went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
On a fine spring evening, the lag lay dreaming
And the seagulls were wheeling high above the wall
And that auld triangle went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Oh the wind was sighing and the day was dying
As the lag lay crying in his prison cell
And that auld triangle went jingle bloody jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
In the female prison, there are seventy women
And I wish it was with them that I did dwell
And that auld triangle went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal