[Intro]
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I've been in jail eleven years and parole has just come through,
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The gates will soon swing open wide but I'm not going through.
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Jail's the only home I know or care to know about,
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Please let me stay where I belong, please don't let me out.!
 
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How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me,
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Can't I make you understand I never can be free ?
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Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
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That leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!

[Solo]
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I had to learn to get along without a lot of things,
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And I had to learn to live with the loneliness confinement brings.
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And I learned to take no mail from home or whatever came about,
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Now I'm dug in and I'm happy here, please don't let me out!
 
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How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me,
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Can't I make you understand I never can be free ?
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Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
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That leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!
  
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Yes, that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
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That leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out