“Tonight theres going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town”.

In this age of geolocation, geolocation, geolocation (doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?), one might be forgiven for looking back on the days when maps ruled the earth – possibly even the glovebox of the car – with a benevolent sigh, thinking that ‘they’ didn’t know what it was to be geolocated. You’d be wrong – even with the aid of a map, you can pretty much deduce what Mr Philip Lynott meant – there is going to be a jailbreak, and it is going to be somewhere in this town. Well, golly gee, might that be at ….the jail? Is this the dumbest lyric ever written in a song? Well, possibly, but a little further study of the offending lyric sheet, and I use the word ‘lyric’ advisedly, reveals that he is suggesting that “Don’t you be around”….implying that he and the boys are going to make trouble for you. Now I may not be going along with the spirit of the song, but if you break out of jail, you aren’t going to hang around to settle scores and draw attention to those that would want you back behind bars, are you? And why on earth issue a warning about it in the first place – surely the element of surprise is key to the whole caper?
Phil, not one of your brightest moments with a pen.