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