"Prisoner of Society" is a song by Australian punk rock band the Living End.

[1] The Living End had achieved mainstream success with the release of their third EP, Second Solution / Prisoner of Society, in September 1997.

The lyrics are, 'screw society, screw mum and dad, this is young people's music' and I wanted to put that as simply as I could.

Obviously we didn't think at the time that it would become the biggest selling single of the 1990s" - Chris Cheney [4] Double J named it in the top twenty Australian songs of the 1990s, saying it, "hits you in the guts, right from the first few bars.

"[5] In January 1999, "Prisoner of Society" was released as a radio single in the United States, where it peaked at No.