[Intro]
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 There was a friend of mine on murder
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And the judge's gavel fell
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Jury found him guilty, gave him ...
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sixteen years in hell
 
[Verse]
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He said "I ain't spending my life here
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I ain't livin' a - lone
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Ain't breakin' no rocks on the chain gang
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I'm breakin' out and  headin' home"
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Gonna make a (jail-         break)
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And I'm looking towards the sky
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I'm gonna make a (jail-         break)
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Oh, how I wish that I could fly
 
[Pre-Chorus]
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All in the name of liberty
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All in the name of liberty         Got to be free
 
[Chorus]
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(Jail-          break),
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let me outta here
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(Jail-          break),
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  sixteen years, ah
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(Jail-          break),
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   had    more than I can take
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(Jail-          break),                                yeah
 
[Verse 2]
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He said he'd   seen his lady being fooled with
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By another man
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  She was down and he was up
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Had a gun in his hand
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Bullets started flying everywhere
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People start to scream
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Big man lyin'  on the ground
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  With a  hole in his body
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Where his life had been,   but it was
 
[Pre-Chorus]
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All in the name of liberty
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All in the name of liberty         I got to be free
 
[Chorus]
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(Jail-          break),
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(Jail-          break), I got to break out
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Out of here
 
[Solo]
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[Bridge]
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Heartbeats, they were racing
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Freedom, he was chasin'
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Spotlights, sirens
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Rifles firing
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But he made it out...
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... with a bullet in his back
 
[Chorus]
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Jail-          break,
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Jail-          break,
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Jail-          break,
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Jail-          break,