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“My Own Prison” by the group Creed is a very moving and inspirational song. The reason it is an inspirational song is because it has an excellent meaning. The author of the song Scott Sapp, one of the members of the band, had a hard life and is expressing his feeling about his life in this song. This song is the result of his hard life up to the point when he wrote the song. “My Own Prison” is the title track of their first album, also called “My Own Prison,” so the significance of this song to Scott is very apparent. After blaming the world and even God for his problems, he finally sat down and realized it was his fault the entire time. He was the one who made the wrong decisions.

The song talks about how he created his own prison by the things he did an...

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