maybe i'm better off

maybe i'm better off, if i never leave this cell, maybe i've lived enough, in a world 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, yes i'm better off, it's jailbreak time for ian, maybe i'm better off, now that i've kissed her off, now that they've whisked me off to the slammer and, maybe i'm better off, now that she's pissed me off, now that my fist takes on a new glamour and, maybe my mind's run off, maybe i've just gone off my head, maybe i've just gone 'round the bend, maybe i'm in my own little world, it's jailbreak time for ian, praise the lord, it's 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, then you give up being young, everything has a cost, that's the way this world is run, maybe i'm better off, now i'm free and thirty-one, i'm free, male, and thirty-one