the sun was beating down inside the walls of stone and razor wire  as we made our way accross the prison yard  i felt my heart begin to race as we drew nearer to the place  where they say that death is waiting in the dark  the slamming doors of iron echoed through the halls  where despair holds life within it's cruel claws  but then i met a man who's face seemed so strangely out of place  a blinding light of hope was shining in his eyes  and with repentance in his voice he told me of his tragic choice  that led him to this place where he must pay the price  but then his voice grew strong as he began to tell  about the one he said had rescued him from hell, he said...  i'm free, yeah, yeah, oh, i have been forgiven  God's love has taken off my chains and given me these wings  and i'm free, yeah, yeah, and the freedom i've been given  is something that not evevn death can take away from me  because i'm free  Jesus set me free  we said a prayer and said goodbye and tears began to fill my eyes  as i stepped back out into the blinding sun  and even as i drove away i found that i could not escape  the way he spoke of what the grace of God had done  i thought about how sin had sentenced us to die  and how God gave his only Son so you and i could say...  and if the Son has set you free,  oh, if the Son has set you free,  then you are free indeed,  if the Son has set you free,  oh, if the Son has set you free,  then you are free, realy, realy free  oh, we're free, yeh, oh, we have been forgiven  God's grace has broken every chain and given us these wings  and we're free, yeah, yeah, and the freedom we've been given  is something that not even death can take from you and me  because we're free, yeah, the frreedom we've been given  is something that not even death can take from you and me  because we are free, oh we're free  we are free, we are free  the Son has set us free  if the Son has set you free  you are free indeed