There was a friend of mine on murder
And the judge's gavel fell
Jury found him guilty
And gave him sixteen years in hell

He said, I ain't spending 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, oh let me out of here
Jailbreak, sixteen years
Jailbreak, had more than I could take
Jailbreak, I got to be free

He said, he'd seen his 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

All in the name of liberty
All in the name of liberty
I got to be free

Jailbreak, oh let me out of here
Jailbreak, I got to break out of here

Heartbeats, they were racing
Freedom, he was chasing
Spotlights, sirens, rifles firing
But he made it out
With a bullet in his back

Jailbreak, oh let me out of here
Jailbreak, sixteen years
Jailbreak, had more than I could take
Jailbreak