These Chains

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 through 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