Busted Loose - Roger Chapman

It was a cruel turn of fate

I spent 3 bitter years inside

A friend of mine had set me up He was the one who got away with the money

I swore tonight, would be the night

This place wouldn’t hold me no longer

The rain was dancing in the yard

The searchlight creeping down the wall

The night it was so black outside

I nearly jumped down in the wrong hole

But when I landed in the street

I saw the green light come shining

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Busted loose, I’m out on the run

I’m so close your right in the sight of my gun

Yes I’m nervous, out of control

I can’t stop the hurricane down in my soul

Nobody can hide you

I’m standing right beside you

Watching everything you do, watching everything you do, watching everything you

do I thought that I was strong enough

To take the screws at their own game

But they got tricks they keep in store

For anyone thinking of beating the system

They had me down upon my knees

Soon I was begging, «please have mercy;»

My girl she said she’d stick it out

She kissed my fingers through the grill

She whispered she loved no-one else

Then she went off with some creep on the outside

The night they passed my down the news

That’s when the fuse started burning

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