There was a friend of mine on murder
And the judge's gavel fell
Jury found him guilty
Gave him sixteen years in hell
He said "I ain't spendin' my life here
I ain't living alone,
Ain't breaking no rocks on the chain gang,
I'm breakin' out and headin' home"

Gonna make a jailbreak
And I'm lookin' towards the sky
I'm gonna make a jailbreak
Oh, how I wish that I could fly

All in the name of liberty
All in the name of liberty
Got to be free

Jailbreak, let me out of here
Jailbreak, sixteen years
Jailbreak, had more than I can take
Jailbreak, yeah

He said he'd seen this lady being fooled with,
By another man
She was down and he was up
He had a gun in his hand
Bullets started flying everywhere
And people started to scream
Big man lying on the ground
With a hole in his body
Where his life had been

But it was all in the name of liberty
All in the name of liberty
I got to be free

Jailbreak, jailbreak
I got to break out of here

Heartbeats, they were racin'
Freedom, he was chasin'
Spotlights
Sirens
Rifles, firin'
But he made it out
With a bullet in his back

Jailbreak, jailbreak, jailbreak, jailbreak
Jailbreak, jailbreak, jailbreak, jailbreak