please don't let me out

i've been in jail eleven years and parole has just come through

the gates will soon swing open wide but i'm not going through

jail's the only home i know or care to know about

please let me stay where i belong please don't let me out

how could i tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me

can't i make you understand i never can be free

cause that's a big unfriendly world and i don't know the route

that leads to where i may belong please don't let me out

i had to learn to get along without a lot of things

and i had to learn to live with the loneliness confinement brings

and i learnt to take no mail from home or whatever came about

now i'm dug in and i'm happy here please don't let me out

how could i tell those friends of mine. yes that's a big unfriendly world.