Jailbreak

Album: Jailbreak (1976)
Charted: 31
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  • Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    Somewhere in this town
    See me and the boys we don't like it
    So were getting up and going down

    Hiding low looking right to left
    If you see us coming I think it's best
    To move away do you hear what I say
    From under my breath

    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    Somewhere in the town
    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    So don't you be around

    Don't you be around

    Tonight there's gonna be trouble
    Some of us won't survive
    See the boys and me mean business
    Bustin' out dead or alive

    I can hear the hound dogs on my trail
    All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail
    Like the game if you lose
    Go to jail

    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    Somewhere in the town
    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    So don't you be around

    Tonight there's gonna trouble
    I'm gonna find myself in
    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    So woman stay with a friend

    You know it's safer

    Breakout!

    Tonight there's gonna be a breakout
    Into the city zones
    Don't you dare to try and stop us
    No one could for long

    Searchlight on my trail
    Tonight's the night all systems fail
    Hey you good lookin' female
    Come here!

    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    Somewhere in the town
    Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
    So don't you be around

    Tonight there's gonna be trouble
    I'm gonna find myself in
    Tonight there's gonna be trouble
    So woman stay with a friend Writer/s: Philip Parris Lynott
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • David from NycSomewhere in this town…

    maybe at the jail? They should check the jail. Probably there.
  • Dane from Green Cove Springs Fla., FlTotal badness...this song just rocks.My favorite Thin Lizzy song by far.
  • Harold from San Bernadino, CaGreat band!..wish they would have had more hits. and yeah, this one ROCKS!
  • John from Galway, IrelandGreat song, great Irish band.........say no more!!
  • Mike from Hueytown , AlThis may be the baddest coolest Rock and Roll song ever. HIGHLY underrated
  • Greg from Alsip, IlSometimes there ain't much more to say. Right on Cody!!
  • Cody from Janesville , Withis song kicks ass Thin Lizzy Rules
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