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   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 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   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