Kenny Rogers - These Chains lyrics

These chains.

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 ...