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 ...



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 ...



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  ...