Maybe I’m Better Off

[McTurk]
Maybe I'm better off
If I never leave this cell
Maybe I've lived enough
In a world as free as hell
Just as free as hell

Where you keep on thinking
While it's stinking
You enjoy the smell
And you lick the bowl as well
Love's out there, they tell you
They sell you anything to
Make you happy
Then it all just turns to crap

So maybe I'm better off
Than I was when I was young
Now that I know the cost
When you try to love someone
Guess I'm better off
In jail at thirty-one

What about all my friends?
Now I won't have to watch them die
And every time they sell out
I won't be there to question why
They can get so high
On the butts they're kissing
While they're pissing 'way each other's lives
As they shag each other's wives
No shopping, co-oping
None of the grand design to sooth the masses
'Til it's time to pay your taxes

Maybe I'm better off
Than I was in days gone by
Now that I know the cost
When you set your sights too high
Guess I'm better off

(Jack Ramsay bursts through a hole in the cell wall)

[McTurk & (Ramsay)]
(It's jailbreak time for Ian)

Maybe I'm better off (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Now that I've kissed her off (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Now that they've whisked me off... (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
...to the slammer and (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Maybe I'm better off (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Now that she's pissed me off (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Now that my fist takes on (It's a jailbreak)
A new glamour (It's a jailbreak) and (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Maybe my mind's run off (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Maybe I've just gone off my head (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Maybe I've just gone 'round the bend (It's jailbreak time for Ian)
Maybe I'm in my own little... (It's time that Ian got back in the...)

[Both]
...world

It's jailbreak time for Ian
It's jailbreak time for Ian
Praise the Lord, it's jailbreak time for Ian

[McTurk]
What the hell took you so long?

[Both]
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 it's cost (everything has it's cost)
That's the way this world is run
Maybe I'm/we're better off
Now I'm free and thirty-one
I'm free, male, and thirty-one