Maybe Im better off
If I never leave this cell
Maybe Ive lived enough
In a world as free as hell (just as free as hell)
Where you keep on thinking
While its stinking
You enjoy the smell
And you lick the bowl as well
Loves out there
They tell you
They sell you anything to make you happy
Then it all just turns to crap
So maybe Im better off
Than I was when I was young
Now that I know the cost
When you try to love someone
Guess Im better off
In jail at thirty-one

What about all my friends?
Now I wont have to watch them die
And every time they sell out
I wont be there to question why
They can get so high
On the butts theyre kissing
While theyre pissing
way each others lives
As they shag each others wives
No shopping, co-oping
None of the grand design to sooth the masses
til its time to pay your taxes
Maybe Im better off
Than I was in days gone by
Now that I know the cost
When you set your sights too high
Yes Im better off

Its jailbreak time for ian

Maybe Im better off
Now that Ive kissed her off
Now that theyve whisked me off to the slammer and
Maybe Im better off
Now that shes pissed me off
Now that my fist takes on a new glamour and
Maybe my minds run off
Maybe Ive just gone off my head
Maybe Ive just gone round the bend
Maybe Im in my own little world

Its jailbreak time for ian
Praise the lord, its jailbreak time for ian
What the hell took you so long?

Life hands you new chances
Uncertain circumstances
Set you back
But then you win the lotto jackpot
Every time you give up (every time you give up)
Then you give up being young
Everything has a cost
Thats the way this world is run
Maybe Im better off
Now Im free and thirty-one
Im free, male, and thirty-one