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These chains won't keep me from being a free man |
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Doing what I can to get out of here, |
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And these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom, |
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Changing my name and starting over again. |
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I was a fool for a good looking woman, |
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'til I found out the hard way, there was some out of me |
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Now what else could I do, how could any one blame me, |
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To stand in this smile and with a gun in his hands. |
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These chains won't keep me from being a free man |
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Doing what I can to get out of here, |
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and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom, |
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changing my name and starting over again. |
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She had a known reputation but I paid no attention, |
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good love and affection can make anything right |
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But judged no mercy for my infatuation, |
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She said: killers are sinned boys, you've gotta pay the price. |
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These chains won't keep me from being a free man |
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Doing what I can to get out of here, |
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and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom, |
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Changing my name and starting over again. |
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Down the hole there's a window |
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You can barely see thro' it |
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Deep in the night I see |
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The lights of town |
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And started me thinking that a mystical ladder |
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Is as high as these walls and I'm climbing it run by run. |
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These chains won't keep me from being a free man |
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Doing what I can to get out of here, |
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and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom, |
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Changing my name and starting over again... |