These Chains (Kenny Rogers)

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 thro’ 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 ...