I just got a letter from my family,
the ones that I used to call my own.
In so many words they said they loved me,
but I could tell they knew I'd not be home.
Outside I guess the moon is shinin'
I heard the midnight train go by
All I ever do, I'm so lonely
Is lie upon my cot and cry
The prison door is locked from the out
side I can't even tell night from day
The prison door is locked
from the outside
And it looks like I'm in the cell to stay,
poor boy
Through endless days and nights I wonder
Just how a boy like me went wrong
God only knows all the broken hearts
that live in the words of this song
The warden says I'm in forever,
and that means it's here I'm gonna die
I tell this old cell I'll be leaving,
but this old cell won't tell me goodbye
The prison door is locked from the outside I
can't even tell night from day
The prison door is locked from the outside
And it looks like I'm in the cell to stay
Poor boy, it looks like I'm in the cell to stay