these chains

these chains won't keep me from being a free man

doing what i can to get out of here

and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

changing my name and starting over again. i was a fool for a good looking woman

'til i found out the hard way

there was some out of me

now what else could i do

how could any one blame me

to stand in this smile and with a gun in his hands. these chains won't keep me from being a free man

doing what i can to get out of here

and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

changing my name and starting over again. she had a known reputation but i paid no attention

good love and affection can make anything right

but judged no mercy for my infatuation

she said: killers are sinned boys

you've gotta pay the price. these chains won't keep me from being a free man

doing what i can to get out of here

and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

changing my name and starting over again. down the hole there's a window

you can barely see thro' it

deep in the night i see

the lights of town

and started me thinking that a mystical ladder

is as high as these walls and i'm climbing it run by run. these chains won't keep me from being a free man

doing what i can to get out of here

and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom

changing my name and starting over again.