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Artist: AC/DC
Canonical path: /ac-dc/jailbreak
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Jailbreak
Read Jailbreak lyrics by AC/DC on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Jailbreak
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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 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
Got to be free
Jailbreak, let me out of here
Jailbreak, sixteen years, ah
Jailbreak, had more than I can take
Jailbreak, yeah
He said, he'd seen his lady
Being fooled with by another man
She was down and he was up
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
Out of here
Heartbeats, they were racin'
Freedom, he was chasin'
Spotlights, sirens, rifles firing
But he made it out
With a bullet in his back
Jailbreak
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