Why Must I Die? is a 1960 film directed by Roy Del Ruth, and starring Terry Moore and Debra Paget. It was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with The Jailbreakers.
Lois King keeps her troubled past from nightclub owner Kenny Randall, who hires her to sing at his club, The Cockatoo, and has fallen in love with her.
Lois is blackmailed by Eddie, the ex-partner of her father, Red, who is in prison. Eddie and a female safecracker, Dottie Manson, will see to it that Red's sentence is extended to life unless Lois helps them rob the nightclub.
Kenny accidentally comes across the burglars and is killed. Lois finds his body and is arrested and falsely convicted for his murder.
Lois is on death row when Dottie is brought to the prison. By the time other inmates can convince Dottie to confess to killing Kenny, the execution has been carried out.
I try to leave you
I try to get away
But more then ever I see things don't go my way
I try to bargain
Hope I could understand
If I could hold your heart
It'd be forgotten
And it's like I'm holding on
I try to figure out
The way I know is best
The way I'm coming on
Is falling away
And it's like I'm holding on
Every road I walk down
Is like every time
I die
Every road I walk down
Like every time I die
I'm walking backwards
I'm talking to myself
I'm thinking all about
The way we've lost it
The more I know you
The more I get know you
It all sounds the same
And everything you touch
You make me take the blame
For all of these
And it's like I'm holding on
Every road I walk down
Is like every time
I die
Every road I walk down