Kim Carnes - These Chains lyrics

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 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 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: k**ers are sinned boys, you've gotta pay the price 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 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 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...